ISBN:
9780415223393
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Series Statement:
Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Parallel Title:
Print version Critique of Violence : Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory
DDC:
303.6/01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 o
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; lntroduction; 1 On the Politics of Pure Means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault; 2 Between Kant and Nietzsche: Foucault's Critique; 3 Power/Force/War (On Foucault's ""Society Must Be Defended""); 4 The Violence of Language; 5 Violence and Interpretation: Enzensberger's Civil Wars; 6 Ethics of the Other; 7 Limits of Feminist Representation: Elfriede Jelinek's Language of Violence; 8 Whatever Happened to Feminist Theory?; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
