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Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (Paperback)
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Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (Paperback)
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With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that
dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age
that is seeing the return of "ethnic cleansing" and "identity
politics," the question of violence, in all of its multiple
ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than
concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of
these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink
the "concept" of violence, both in itself and in relation to the
formation and transformation of identities, whether individual or
collective, political or cultural, religious or secular. In
particular, they subject the notion of self-determination to
stringent scrutiny: is it to be understood as a value that excludes
violence, in principle if not always in practice? Or is its
relation to violence more complex and, perhaps, more sinister?
Reconsideration of the concepts, the practice, and even the
critique of violence requires an exploration of the implications
and limitations of the more familiar interpretations of the terms
that have dominated in the history of Western thought. To this end,
the nineteen contributors address the concept of violence from a
variety of perspectives in relation to different forms of cultural
representation, and not in Western culture alone; in literature and
the arts, as well as in society and politics; in philosophical
discourse, psychoanalytic theory, and so-called juridical ideology,
as well as in colonial and post-colonial practices and power
relations.
The contributors are Giorgio Agamben, Ali Behdad, Cathy Caruth,
Jacques Derrida, Michael Dillon, Peter Fenves, Stathis Gourgouris,
Werner Hamacher, Beatrice Hanssen, Anselm Haverkamp, Marian Hobson,
Peggy Kamuf, M. B. Pranger, Susan M. Shell, Peter van der Veer,
Hent de Vries, Cornelia Vismann, and Samuel Weber.
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