Naming Violence - A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism

Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1. Political Theory Between Moralism and Realism
2. Telling Stories: On Art’s Role in Dispelling Genocide Blindness
3. How to Do Things with Hypotheticals: Assessing Thought Experiments About Torture
4. Genealogy as Critique: Problematizing Definitions of Terrorism
5. The Conceptual Tapestry of Political Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mathias Thaler is senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? Eine Analyse aktueller Debatten zur internationalen Gerechtigkeit (2008) and the coeditor of On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (2014).

Summary

Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence.

Additional text

[A] brilliant new book...

Product details

• Authors: Mathias Thaler, Professor Mathias Thaler
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780231188142
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18814-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Terrorism, armed struggle, Political science and theory, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing