| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; 9 |
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Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Introduction: topics, problems, and potentials of a phenomenological analysis of violence / Michael Staudigl -- On the concept of violence : intelligibility and risk / James Dodd -- On transcendental violence / Eddo Evink -- Societies choose their dead : a phenomenology of systemic violence / Robert Bernasconi -- From alienation to recovery : the subject's relationship to institutional violence / Michael D. Barber -- Exploiting the dignity of the vulnerable body : rape as a weapon of war / Debra Bergoffen -- Arendt's violence/power distinction and sartre's violence/ counter-violence distinction : the phenomenology of violence in colonial and post-colonial context / Kathryn T. Gines -- Violence and blindness : the case of uchuraccay / James Mensch -- Speaking out of the experience of violence : on the question of testimony / Stefan Nowotny -- Repentance as a response to violence in the dynamic of forgiveness / Anthony J. Steinbock -- Homecoming / Jan Patocka's reflections on the First World War / Nicolas de Warren -- The nostalgia of the front / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Index |
| Summary |
Phenomenologies of Violence explores phenomenology's capacities to deepen our understanding of various violences. The volume presents phenomenology as an interdisciplinary, relevant method to investigate violence, its many faces, meanings, and far reaching consequences for human existence and self-understanding |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2013) |
| Subject |
Phenomenology.
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Violence -- Research.
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phenomenology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Phenomenology
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Violence -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Staudigl, Michael, 1971-
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| ISBN |
9789004259782 |
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9004259783 |
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1306087538 |
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9781306087537 |
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