On Violence: A Reader - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 082233769X ISBN 13: 9780822337690

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2007

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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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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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"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"

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ON VIOLENCE

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Contents

Acknowledgments...........................................................................................................................................................................................................ixGeneral Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century.....................................................................................................................................................1PART I. THE DIALECTICS OF VIOLENCE........................................................................................................................................................................................17Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit....................................................................................................................................................................27Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dhring............................................................................................................................................................................................39Karl Heinrich Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy..............................................................................................................................................................62Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth).............................................................................................................................................................78PART II. THE OTHER OF VIOLENCE............................................................................................................................................................................................101Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule......................................................................................................................................................................110Adolf Hitler, The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf).................................................................................................................................................................127Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet.......................................................................................................................................................................................143Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks.....................................................................................................................................................................158Raymond Williams, Keywords; Marxism and Literature........................................................................................................................................................................180Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice..........................................................................................................................................................................188James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance.....................................................................................................................................................................199PART III. THE INSTITUTION OF VIOLENCE: THREE CONNECTIONS..................................................................................................................................................................215Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego...............................................................................................................................................................226Linda Gordon, Social Control and the Powers of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives).......................................................................................................................................245Del Martin, Battered Wives................................................................................................................................................................................................255Bruce B. Lawrence, The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth)...............................................................................................................................................................262Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence (Reflections).......................................................................................................................................................................268Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory.......................................................................................................................................286Robert M. Cover, Violence and the Word....................................................................................................................................................................................292Chandra Muzaar, Human Rights and the New World Order......................................................................................................................................................................314Ren Girard, Violence and the Sacred......................................................................................................................................................................................334James Cone, Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed).....................................................................................................................................................351Sharon Welch, Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity)........................................................................................................................362Simone Weil, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force..............................................................................................................................................................................377PART IV. THE STATE OF VIOLENCE............................................................................................................................................................................................391Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan..................................................................................................................................................................................................399Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.............................................................................................................................................................................416Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison...........................................................................................................................................................444Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus)..................................................................................................................................472PART V. THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE....................................................................................................................................................................................491Andr Breton and Leon Trotsky, Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 082233769X
• ISBN 13: 9780822337690
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 590
• Herausgeber: Lawrence
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