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Guided by Benjamin's essay Critique of Violence, this collection shows how subsequent thinkers within critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstructionism, and biopolitical theory have conceptualized violence.
List of contents
The Meanings of Violence: Introduction
Gavin Rae and Emma IngalaPart I: Political Myth and Social Transformation1. Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon
James Martel2. Violence, Divine or Otherwise: Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation
Hjalmar Falk 3. Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel
Robert P. Jackson 4. The Violence of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt and the Tragic Loss of Revolutionary Politics
Liesbeth SchoonheimPart II: Sociality and Meaning 5. The World and the Embodied Subject: Humanism, Terror, and Violence
Stephen A. Noble 6. Dialectics got the Upper Hand: Fanon, Violence, and the Quest[ion] of Liberation
Nigel C. Gibson7. Sartre's Later Work: Towards a Notion of Institutional Violence
Marieke Mueller 8. The Original Polemos: Phenomenology and Violence in Jacques Derrida
Valeria Campos-Salvaterra Part III: From Subjectivity to Biopolitics9. Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual
Gavin Rae 10. Judith Butler: From a Formative Violence to an Ethics of Non-Violence
Emma Ingala 11. Biopolitics and Resistance: The Meaning of Violence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben
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About the author
Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of
Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (2011);
Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze (2014);
The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (2016); and co-editor (with Emma Ingala) of
Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018).
Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and Vice-Dean of Academic Organization in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She specializes in post-structuralist thought, political anthropology, feminist theory and psychoanalysis, and is the co-editor (with Gavin Rae) of
Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018).
Summary
Guided by Benjamin’s essay Critique of Violence, this collection shows how subsequent thinkers within critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstructionism, and biopolitical theory have conceptualized violence.
