Phenomenologies of violence / / edited by Michael Staudigl.

• Superior document: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Staudigl, Michael, 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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 and structural explanations. On the other hand, it provides the reader with accounts on the many faces of violence, ranging from physical, psychic, structural and symbolic violence to forms of social as well as organized violence. In this volume it is argued that phenomenology, which has not yet been used in interdisciplinary research on violence, offers basic insights into the constitution of violence, our possibilities of understanding, and our actions to contain it. Contributors include :Michael D. Barber, Debra Bergoffen, Robert Bernasconi, James Dodd, Eddo Evink, Kathryn T. Gines, James Mensch, Stefan Nowotny, Michael Staudigl, Anthony J. Steinbock, and Nicolas de Warren.

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.