The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics

ISBN-13: 9780367732967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Gavin Rae; Emma Ingala

Opis

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.

Spis treści

The Meanings of Violence: Introduction Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala

Part I: Political Myth and Social Transformation

1. Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon James Martel

2. 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 Schoonheim

Part 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. Gibson

7. 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 Biopolitics

9. 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 German Primera

O autorze

Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Skłodowska-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).