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The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics

by Gavin Rae, Emma Ingala

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the nature and meaning of 'violence' itself became a conceptual problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin's famous 1921 'Critique of Violence' essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent thinkers-Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida, Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Schmitt-grappled with the meaning and place of violence. The aim is not to reduce these multiple responses to a singular one, but to highlight the heterogeneous ways in which the concept has been inquired into and the manifold meanings of it that have resulted. To this end, each chapter focuses on a different approach or thinker within twentieth and twenty-first century European philosophy, with many of them tackling the issue through the mediation of other topics and disciplines, including biopolitics, epistemology, ethics, culture, law, politics, and psychoanalysis. As such, the volume will be an invaluable resource for those interested in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Political Theory, Psychology, and Sociology.
The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics and The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas
The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel LevinasThe Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics

  • Author

    Gavin Rae

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    December 2020

  • Weight

    364g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367732967

  • ISBN-10

    0367732963

  • Eden Code

    5611878

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