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

ISBN-13: 9781441152725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 232 str.

Christopher S. Yates; Nathan Eckstrand

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction (Christopher Yates, Boston College)

I. BETWEEN POLITICAL NECESSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE

1. 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 IDENTITY

5. 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 DISCOURSE

10. 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)

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