Naming Violence : : A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism /

Naming Violence : : A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism / / Mathias Thaler.

Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to "enhanced interrogation techniques" or to "torture," whether a person is called a "terrorist" or a "patriot." Do these decis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Thaler, Mathias,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 52
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. POLITICAL THEORY BETWEEN MORALISM AND REALISM
  • 2. TELLING STORIES: ON ART'S ROLE IN DISPELLING GENOCIDE BLINDNESS
  • 3. HOW TO DO THINGS WITH HYPOTHETICALS: ASSESSING THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS ABOUT TORTURE
  • 4. GENEALOGY AS CRITIQUE: PROBLEMATIZING DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM
  • 5. THE CONCEPTUAL TAPESTRY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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