The meanings of violence : from critical theory to biopolitics /: from critical theory to biopolitics. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala.
• Editors: Rae, Gavin, 1982-; Ingala, Emma
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.6; Violence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351336512; 9781351336529; 9781351336505; 9780203703762
• Related ISBNs: 9781138570207
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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