On violence: a reader

This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume pr...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lawrence, Bruce B. 1941- (HerausgeberIn), Karim, Aisha (HerausgeberIn), Breton, André 1896-1966 (MitwirkendeR), Gramsci, Antonio 1891-1937 (MitwirkendeR), MacKinnon, Catharine A. 1946- (MitwirkendeR), Chandra Muzaffar 1947- (MitwirkendeR), Martin, Del 1921-2008 (MitwirkendeR), Leyton, Elliott 1939- (MitwirkendeR), Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961 (MitwirkendeR), Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895 (MitwirkendeR), Guattari, Félix 1930-1992 (MitwirkendeR), Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 (MitwirkendeR), Deleuze, Gilles 1925-1995 (MitwirkendeR), Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 (MitwirkendeR), Scott, James C. 1936-2024 (MitwirkendeR), Cone, James H. 1938-2018 (MitwirkendeR), Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 (MitwirkendeR), Marx, Karl 1818-1883 (MitwirkendeR), Stiles, Kristine 1947- (MitwirkendeR), Trockij, Lev Davidovič 1879-1940 (MitwirkendeR)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press [2007]
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Zusammenfassung:This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors' contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it.On Violence is divided into five sections.
Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence-Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X-and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence-familial, legal, and religious-while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors' introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays.
Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence.With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, André Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, René Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams
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ISBN:9780822390169
DOI:10.1515/9780822390169