Phenomenologies of violence / / edited by Michael Staudigl.

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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Superior document:Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; 9
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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.
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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.