Description
The Subject of Violence is a critical investigation of violence and the subjectifying capacities. It both relies on and explores the work of Hannah Arendt. At its background are feminist concerns, but also concerns with violence that press against the feminist problematic and push its boundaries. The book's main project is ethico-political 'understanding' and, therefore, it is also about finding an ethico-political language for violence that escapes the standard idioms in which violence is spoken. Weaving biographical fragments with theory, the book addresses the very thinking of violence, the possibility and implications of its comprehension, genocide (the Nazi Judeocide in particular) and nationalism (especially in its Zionist form), as well as women's encounters with violence and second-wave feminist engagement with the martial arts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Thinking About Violence Between Theory and (Auto)Biography
Chapter 3 Shattered Worlds and Shocked Understandings
Chapter 4 A Legacy of Women in Dark Times
Part 5 Shapes of Violence
Chapter 6 Thoughtless Action Into Nature and The Violence of Genocide
Chapter 7 An Excursus (Perhaps): Eichmann in Jerusalem and Post-Zionism
Chapter 8 Violence in the Intersection of Nationalism and the State Form
Part 9 Ambiguous Alternatives
Chapter 10 Violent Bodies
Product details
| Published | 23 Apr 2002 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781461705642 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Feminist Constructions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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