ISBN:
9789004259737
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (270 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology
Parallel Title:
Print version Phenomenologies of Violence
DDC:
303.6072
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Gewalttätigkeit
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Phänomenologie
Abstract:
Phenomenologies of Violence explores phenomenology's capacities to deepen our understanding of various violences. The volume presents phenomenology as an interdisciplinary, relevant method to investigate violence, its many faces, meanings, and far reaching consequences for human existence and self-understanding
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Topics, Problems, and Potentials of aPhenomenological Analysis of Violence; I. Theoretical Considerations; 1. On the Concept of Violence: Intelligibility and Risk; 2. On Transcendental Violence; 3. Societies Choose Their Dead: A Phenomenology of Systemic Violence; II. Applied Phenomenological Analyses; 4. From Alienation to Recovery:The Subject's Relationship to Institutional Violence; 5. Exploiting the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body:Rape as a Weapon of War
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Arendt's Violence/Power Distinction and Sartre's Violence/Counter-Violence Distinction:The Phenomenology of Violence in Colonial and Post-Colonial Context7. Violence and Blindness: The Case of Uchuraccay; III. Confronting Violence: Problems and Prospects; 8. Speaking Out of the Experience of Violence.On the Question of Testimony; 9. Repentance as a Response to Violence in the Dynamic ofForgiveness; 10. Homecoming.Jan Patočka's Reflections on the First World War; IV. Annex; 11. The Nostalgia of the Front; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
