Archaeology of War - The History of Violence Between the 20th and 21st Centuries

The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.

List of contents

Introduction: Understanding the Violence; Part I Violence and History, Chapter One War as 'Becoming': On the Ontology of Conflict ; Chapter Two The Embodiment of the Victim: Phenomenology of Violence Suffered; Part II Dark Spots in History, Chapter Three Colonial Violence: The Dark Sides of the Modern State; Chapter Four Hate: On the enigma of divisiveness in the age of the total; Chapter Five Disastrous Violence: Ideologies; Chapter Six Politics, Violence and Sacrality; Chapter Seven The Frightening Love of War; Part III Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century: The Worldview of Concern; Chapter Eight The Valorative Space in Times of War; Chapter Nine What Does 'Learning from History' Mean? On the Implicit Pedagogy of History ; Chapter Ten War Again? The Contribution of Philosophy to the Phenomenon of War ; Chapter Eleven From the Worldview of War to the Worldview of Concern; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Christian Wevelsiep, born on 18 November 1969 in Bochum, Germany, studied special education, philosophy and sociology. Since 2009 he is lecturer of political sociology at the European University Flensburg. He specialises in political theory, history and philosophy, main topics being the history and theory of violence. 

Summary

The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.

Product details

• Authors: Wevelsiep, Christian Wevelsiep
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781839983559
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-355-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Anthem Intercultural Transfer Studies; Anthem Intercultural Transfer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; First World War, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Phenomenology and Existentialism