Violence and Meaning

Book Overview

Introduction.- Part I: The Concept of Violence.- 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt.- 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lode Lauwaert.- Part II: Transcendental Violence.- 3. The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense, Felix ? Murchadha.- 4. Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: Phenomenological Exploration, Michael Staudigl.- 5. The Violence of the Singular, Arthur Cools.- 6. Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibly of Violence, Jason Alvis.- Part III: Immanent Violence.- 7. The Double Meaning of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis, Nidesh Lawtoo.- 8. The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst J?nger Looking at Photographs of the First World War, St?phane Symons and Tammy Castelein.- Part IV: Individual Violence.- 9. Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture, Jeremy Heuslein.- 10. Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz To A Politics of Revolt, Debra Bergoffen.- 11. Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence, Gavin Rae.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030271722
• ISBN13: 9783030271725
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"