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, Andre Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles
Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund
Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, Rene Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci,
Felix 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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