Critique of Violence

Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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Author: Beatrice Hanssen ISBN: 9781317835097
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: February 25, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Beatrice Hanssen
ISBN: 9781317835097
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: February 25, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other. In the course of doing so, she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin, Arendt, Fanon and Foucault, and incisively explores the politics of recognition, the violence of language, and the future of feminist theory.
This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy, political theory, social studies and comparative literature.
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Hegel After Derrida
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The Hypocritical Imagination
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Philosophy and Tragedy
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Very Little ... Almost Nothing
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Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other. In the course of doing so, she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin, Arendt, Fanon and Foucault, and incisively explores the politics of recognition, the violence of language, and the future of feminist theory.
This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy, political theory, social studies and comparative literature.
Also available in this series:
Essays on Otherness
Hb: 0-415-13107-3: £50.00
Pb: 0-415-13108-1: £15.99
Hegel After Derrida
Hb: 0-415-17104-4: £50.00
Pb: 0-415-17105-9: £15.99
The Hypocritical Imagination
Hb: 0-415-21361-4: £47.50
Pb: 0-415-21362-2: £15.99
Philosophy and Tragedy
Hb: 0-415-19141-6: £45.00
Pb: 0-415-19142-4: £14.99
Textures of Light
Hb: 0-415-14273-3: £42.50
Pb: 0-415-14274-1: £13.99
Very Little ... Almost Nothing
Pb: 0-415-12821-8: £47.50
Pb: 0-415-12822-6: £15.99

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