Full Description
While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations.
Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures - from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek - who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study.
Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.
Contents
1. The Subject of Violence - Brad Evans and Terrell Carver
2. Walter Benjamin - James Martel
3. Hannah Arendt - Kimberly Hutchings
4. Frantz Fanon - Lewis R. Gordon
5. Michel Foucault - Brad Evans
6. Jacques Derrida - Gregg Lambert
7. Gilles Deleuze - Ian Buchanan
8. Judith Butler - Jelke Boesten
9. Zygmunt Bauman - Keith Tester
10. Paul Virilio - Mark Lacy
11. Giorgio Agamben - Marcelo Svirsky
12. Slavoj Žižek - Paul A. Taylor
13. Cynthia Enloe - Terrell Carver
