Phenomenologies of violence /

Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. On one hand, it seeks to view violence as a genuine philosophical problem, id est, beyond the still prevalent instrumental, cultural a...

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Other Authors: Staudigl, Michael, 1971-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Brill : Boston, 2013.

Series: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology 9.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.

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Call Number: HM1116 .P44 2013

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Topics, Problems, and Potentials of a Phenomenological Analysis of Violence /
  • Michael Staudigl
  • 1. On the Concept of Violence: Intelligibility and Risk /
  • James Dodd
  • 2. On Transcendental Violence /
  • Eddo Evink
  • 3. Societies Choose Their Dead: A Phenomenology of Systemic Violence /
  • Robert Bernasconi
  • 4. From Alienation to Recovery: The Subject's Relationship to Institutional Violence /
  • Michael D. Barber
  • 5. Exploiting the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body: Rape as a Weapon of War /
  • Debra Bergoffen
  • 6. Arendt's Violence/Power Distinction and Sartre's Violence/Counter-Violence Distinction: The Phenomenology of Violence in Colonial and Post-Colonial Context /
  • Kathryn T. Gines
  • 7. Violence and Blindness: The Case of Uchuraccay /
  • James Mensch
  • 8. Speaking Out of the Experience of Violence. On the Question of Testimony /
  • Stefan Nowotny
  • 9. Repentance as a Response to Violence in the Dynamic of Forgiveness /
  • Anthony J. Steinbock
  • 10. Homecoming. Jan Patočka's Reflections on the First World War /
  • Nicolas de Warren
  • 11. The Nostalgia of the Front /
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Index.