Philosophy and the return of violence studies from this widening gyre / edited by Nathan Eckstrand and Christopher Yates.

Other author Eckstrand, Nathan.
Other author Yates, Christopher S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Continuum International Publishing Group,
Descriptionvi, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Violence--Philosophy.
Philosophy--Social aspects.

Contents Introduction / Christopher Yates -- I. BETWEEN POLITICAL NECESSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE -- 1. Philosophy after 9/11 /John McCumber -- 2. Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable / Dennis Schmidt -- 3. Perpetual Peace and the Invention of Total War / Robert Bernasconi -- 4. Violent Thoughts about Slavoj Zizek / Simon Critchley -- II. AT THE BORDERS OF ENMITY, OTHERNESS AND IDENTITY -- 5. Fragile Identity: Respect for the Other and Cultural Identity / Paul Ricoeur -- 6. Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity / Bernhard Waldenfels -- 7. Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity / Richard Kearney -- 8. Towards an Anthropology of Violence: Existential Analyses of Levinas, Girard, Freud / Jeffrey Bloechl -- 9. Agamben on Violence, Language, and Human Rights / Peg Birmingham -- III. DIAGNOSING POWER, NON-VIOLENCE AND DISCOURSE -- 10. Violence and Non-Violence / James Dodd -- 11. Lines of Fragility: A Foucaultian Critique of Violence / Johanna Oksala -- 12. The Logic of Violence: Foucault on How Power Kills / Peter DeAngelis -- 13. The Remainder: Between Symbolic and Material Violence / Ann Murphy
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-212) and index.
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LCCN 2011501199
ISBN9781441152725
ISBN1441152725

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