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1 online resource (x, 578 pages) : illustrations |
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E-Duke books scholarly collection |
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E-Duke books scholarly collection
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General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the twenty-first century -- Part I. The dialectics of violence. Phenomenology of spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ; Anti-Dühring / Friedrich Engels ; Capital: a critique of political economy / Karl Heinrich Marx ; Concerning violence (The wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon -- Part II. The other of violence. Actors: Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi ; The right of emergency defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Critics: Selections from the Prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci ; Keywords ; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Williams ; Outline of a theory of practice / Pierre Bourdieu ; Domination and the arts of resistance / James C. Scott -- Part III. The institution of violence: three connections. Familial: Group psychology and the analysis of the ego / Sigmund Freud ; Social control and the powers of the weak (Heroes of their own lives) / Linda Gordon ; Battered wives / Del Martin -- Legal: The Shah Bano case (Shattering the myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence ; Critique of violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: an agenda for theory / Catharine MacKinnon ; Violence and the word / Robert M. Cover ; Human rights and the new world order / Chandra Muzaffar -- Religious: Violence and the sacred / René Girard ; Liberation and the Christian ethic (God of the oppressed) / James Cone ; Dangerous memory and alternate knowledges (Communities of resistance and solidarity) / Sharon Welch ; The Iliad, or the poem of force / Simone Weil -- Part IV. The state of violence. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison / Michel Foucault ; Savages, barbarians, and civilized men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- Part V. The representation of violence. Manifesto: towards a free revolutionary art / André Breton and Leon Trotsky ; Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man: a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig ; Shaved heads and marked bodies: representations from cultures of trauma / Kristine Stiles ; Declaration of war against Americans occupying the land of the two holy places / Osama bin Laden ; In the name of Osama Bin Laden: global terrorism and the Bin Laden brotherhood / Roland Jacquard ; Touched by fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World crisis / Elliott Leyton |
| Summary |
This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, and proceeds from the editor's contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-558) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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| Subject |
Violence.
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violence.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Violence.
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Politische Philosophie
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Gewalt
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lawrence, Bruce B., editor
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Karim, Aisha, 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822390169 |
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0822390167 |
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1282923463 |
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9781282923461 |
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9786612923463 |
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6612923466 |
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