A hermeneutics of violence: a four-dimensional conception
The book follows violence into the complex and hidden dimensions in and through which it eludes the collective comprehension and understanding of all who attempt to make sense of it.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Toronto
University of Toronto Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Ayyash, Mark Muhannad, A hermeneutics of violence : a four-dimensional conception] (2021) (Lancaster, Guy, 1976 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Violence
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| Further subjects: | B
Violence-Political aspects
B Electronic books B Violence ; Political aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | The book follows violence into the complex and hidden dimensions in and through which it eludes the collective comprehension and understanding of all who attempt to make sense of it. Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Instrumental Violence: To Capture and Fix Violence -- I Violence and Politics -- II Violence and Modernity -- III "Freeing" the Concept of Violence -- A Delimiting Violence -- B The Flux of Violence -- IV Violence and Death -- 2 Linguistic Violence: The Dispersal of Violence -- I Navigating Violence in the Event and the Everyday -- II The Limits of Language -- 3 Mimetic Violence: Violent Dialogue -- I Speaking with Violence -- II Mimesis -- III The Possibility and Impossibility of Enemy-Siblings -- A A Postcolonial Understanding of the Self-Other Relation -- B Mimesis-Alterity -- Interlude -- 4 Transcendental Violence: Violence the "Thing Itself" -- I Violence and Transcendence -- II The Groundless Ground of Violence -- III To the "Thing Itself" -- IV The Formation of Postures -- A Representation and (Un)knowability -- B Symbolic/Brutal Violence and the Operation of Dispositions -- C Presence/Non-presence and the Propagation of Violence -- 5 A Dialogical Analysis of the Representation of Violence: The Case of Palestine/Israel -- I Morris: Force, Fear, and the State -- II Said: Violence and the Question of Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1487532857 |