Philosophy and the Return of Violence
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Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre


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Written at a time when violence has many faces and goes by many names, this collection is proof that philosophy can remain a vital partner in the twin tasks of diagnosis and action. Emerging across specters of genocide, racism, oppression, terror, poverty, or war, the threat of violence is not only concrete and urgent, but all too often throws the work of critical reflection into vulnerable paralysis. With essays by some of today's finest scholars, these pages breathe new life into the hard work of intellectual engagement. Philosophers such as Peg Birmingham, Robert Bernasconi, and Bernhard Waldenfels not only feel the distinct burden of our age but, with unflagging attention to the philosophical tradition, forge a pronounced counterweight to the violent gyre of today. The result is a stirring critique that looks outward upon the phenomena of injustice, and inward upon the instruments and assumptions of philosophical discourse itself.

Table of Contents:
Introduction (Christopher Yates, Boston College) I. BETWEEN POLITICAL NECESSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE1. Philosophy after 9/11 (John McCumber, UCLA)2. Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable (Dennis Schmidt, Penn State University) 3. Perpetual Peace and the Invention of Total War (Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University )4. Violent Thoughts about Slavoj Zizek (Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research) II. AT THE BORDERS OF ENMITY, OTHERNESS AND IDENTITY5. Fragile Identity: Respect for the Other and Cultural Identity (Paul Ricoeur (trans. Mark Gedney, Gordon College))6. Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity (Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University (trans. Mark Gedney, Gordon College)) 7. Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity (Richard Kearney, Boston College)8. Towards an Anthropology of Violence: Existential Analyses of Levinas, Girard, Freud (Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College)9.  Agamben on Violence, Language, and Human Rights (Peg Birmingham, Depaul University) III. DIAGNOSING POWER, NON-VIOLENCE AND DISCOURSE10. Violence and Non-Violence (James Dodd, New School for Social Research) 11. Lines of Fragility: A Foucaultian Critique of Violence (Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee ) 12. The Logic of Violence: Foucault on How Power Kills (Peter DeAngelis, Villanova University)13. The Remainder: Between Symbolic and Material Violence (Ann Murphy, Fordham University) Bibliography Contributor Notes

About the Author :
Christopher Yates is a Ph.D candidate in Philosophy at Boston College, USA. Nathan Eckstrand is a Ph.D candidate in Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA

Review :
"This important collection of papers, some appearing in English for the first time, and others written specially for this occasion, is a welcome, timely effort by a number of philosophers to examine facets of the ever-increasing spiral of violence embedded in the warp and woof of the contemporary world. Running all the way from child slavery to 9/11, this volume is worth taking very seriously." -- Tom Rockmore, McAnulty College Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA Editors Eckstrand (Duquesne) and Yates (Boston College), both still graduate students, have made a significant contribution to contemporary philosophy... This challenging, illuminating volume... is an indispensable volume for philosophers and graduate students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441152725
  • Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Sub Title: Studies from this Widening Gyre
  • ISBN-10: 1441152725
  • Publisher Date: 24 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm


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