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On Violence A Reader

Lawrence Bruce B. Karim Aisha
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

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9780822337560
Publisert
2007-12-06
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Duke University Press
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953 gr
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
592

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Lawrence Bruce B.
Karim Aisha

Biographical note

Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of The Qur’an: A Biography; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. He is the editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden and Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip-Hop (with miriam cooke).

Aisha Karim is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University. She is a coeditor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.

On Violence A Reader

Lawrence Bruce B. Karim Aisha
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
Lawrence Bruce B. Karim Aisha
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This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it.On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence—Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X—and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence—familial, legal, and religious—while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors’ introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays. Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence.With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, André Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, René Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams
Les mer
Primary texts on violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden.
Acknowledgments ix General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1 Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17 Phenomenology of Spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27 Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels 39 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy / Karl Heinrich Marx 62 Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon 78 Part II. The Other of Violence 101 Actors Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi 110 The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler 127 The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X 143 Critics Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci 158 Keywords; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Wiliams 180 Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 188 Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott 199 Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215 Familial Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego / Sigmund Freud 226 Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) / Linda Gordon 245 Battered Wives / Del Martin 255 Legal The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence 262 Critique of Violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin 268 Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine MacKimmon 286 Violence and the Word / Robert M. Cover 292 Human Rights and the New World Order / Chandra Muzaffar 314 Religious Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard 334 Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) / James Cone 351 Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity) / Sharon Welch 362 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force / Simone Weil 377 Part IV. The State of Violence 391 Leviathon / Thomas Hobbes 399 The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt 416 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 444 Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 472 Part V. The Representation of Violence 491 Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky 498 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing / Michael Tuaussig 503 Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma / Kristine Stiles 522 Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places / Osama Bin Laden; In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood / Roland Jacquard 539 Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis / Elliott Leyton 547 Copyright Acknowledgments 555 Index 559
Les mer
“This volume provides a long-needed anthology of major writings related to the subject of violence. The readings include excerpts from classic contributions of Marx and Freud along with pieces by modern thinkers such as Girard and Bourdieu and social activists from Gandhi to bin Laden. The selections are skillfully chosen to address a central theme, that violence always takes place in a context. The readings explore the idea that social, internal, ritualized, and other forms of violence are part of the processes of life and not necessarily anomalies. This is a thoughtful and arresting set of essays on an important topic that will be useful in the classroom and much discussed in the public forum.”—Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Les mer
Primary texts on violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden.

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This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it.On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence—Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X—and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence—familial, legal, and religious—while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors’ introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays. Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence.With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, André Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, René Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams
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Primary texts on violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden.
Acknowledgments ix General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1 Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17 Phenomenology of Spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27 Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels 39 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy / Karl Heinrich Marx 62 Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon 78 Part II. The Other of Violence 101 Actors Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi 110 The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler 127 The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X 143 Critics Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci 158 Keywords; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Wiliams 180 Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 188 Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott 199 Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215 Familial Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego / Sigmund Freud 226 Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) / Linda Gordon 245 Battered Wives / Del Martin 255 Legal The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence 262 Critique of Violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin 268 Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine MacKimmon 286 Violence and the Word / Robert M. Cover 292 Human Rights and the New World Order / Chandra Muzaffar 314 Religious Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard 334 Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) / James Cone 351 Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity) / Sharon Welch 362 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force / Simone Weil 377 Part IV. The State of Violence 391 Leviathon / Thomas Hobbes 399 The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt 416 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 444 Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 472 Part V. The Representation of Violence 491 Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky 498 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing / Michael Tuaussig 503 Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma / Kristine Stiles 522 Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places / Osama Bin Laden; In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood / Roland Jacquard 539 Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis / Elliott Leyton 547 Copyright Acknowledgments 555 Index 559
Les mer
“This volume provides a long-needed anthology of major writings related to the subject of violence. The readings include excerpts from classic contributions of Marx and Freud along with pieces by modern thinkers such as Girard and Bourdieu and social activists from Gandhi to bin Laden. The selections are skillfully chosen to address a central theme, that violence always takes place in a context. The readings explore the idea that social, internal, ritualized, and other forms of violence are part of the processes of life and not necessarily anomalies. This is a thoughtful and arresting set of essays on an important topic that will be useful in the classroom and much discussed in the public forum.”—Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Les mer
Primary texts on violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822337560
Publisert
2007-12-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
953 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
592

Redaktør
Lawrence Bruce B.
Karim Aisha

Biographical note

Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of The Qur’an: A Biography; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. He is the editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden and Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip-Hop (with miriam cooke).

Aisha Karim is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University. She is a coeditor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.

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