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1 online resource (vi, 221 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction; part i: between political necessity and the challenge of peace; 1. philosophy after 9/11; 2. who counts? on democracy, power, and the incalculable; 3. perpetual peace and the invention of total war; 4. violent thoughts about slavoj žižek; part ii: at the borders of enmity, otherness, and identity; 5. fragile identity: respect for the other and cultural identity; 6. strangeness, hospitality, and enmity; 7. beyond conflict: radical hospitality and religious identity; 8. towards an anthropology of violence: existential analyses of levinas, girard, and freud. |
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9. agamben on violence, language, and human rightspart iii: diagnosing power, nonviolence, and discourse; 10. violence and nonviolence; 11. lines of fragility: a foucaultian critique of violence; 12. the logic of violence: foucault on how power kills; 13. the remainder: between symbolic and material violence; bibliography; contributors; index; a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z. |
Summary |
A range of leading philosophers set the best resources of the philosophical tradition to the task of interpreting violence in its diverse expressions. High profile contributors include Critchley, Ricoeur, Bernasconi, and Waldenfels. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Violence -- Philosophy.
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Violence -- Philosophy. |
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Philosophy -- Social aspects.
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Philosophy -- Social aspects. |
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Philosophy. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Eckstrand, Nathan.
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Yates, Christopher S.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Philosophy and the return of violence. London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011 9781441152725 (OCoLC)648934495 |
ISBN |
9781441126047 (electronic book) |
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144112604X (electronic book) |
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9781441152725 |
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1441152725 |
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