Philosophy and the return of violence
Subtitle: studies from this widening gyre
By: edited by Nathan Eckstrand and Christopher Yates
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781441152725
Subjects: Social aspects; Violence; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christopher Yates; title: I. BETWEEN POLITICAL NECESSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE; title: 1. Philosophy after 9/11 /John McCumber; title: 2. Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable / Dennis Schmidt; title: 3. Perpetual Peace and the Invention of Total War / Robert Bernasconi; title: 4. Violent Thoughts about Slavoj Zizek / Simon Critchley; title: II. AT THE BORDERS OF ENMITY, OTHERNESS AND IDENTITY; title: 5. Fragile Identity: Respect for the Other and Cultural Identity / Paul Ricoeur; title: 6. Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity / Bernhard Waldenfels; title: 7. Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity / Richard Kearney; title: 8. Towards an Anthropology of Violence: Existential Analyses of Levinas, Girard, Freud / Jeffrey Bloechl; title: 9. Agamben on Violence, Language, and Human Rights / Peg Birmingham; title: III. DIAGNOSING POWER, NON-VIOLENCE AND DISCOURSE; title: 10. Violence and Non-Violence / James Dodd; title: 11. Lines of Fragility: A Foucaultian Critique of Violence / Johanna Oksala; title: 12. The Logic of Violence: Foucault on How Power Kills / Peter DeAngelis; title: 13. The Remainder: Between Symbolic and Material Violence / Ann Murphy