The Genealogy of Violence
Title | The Genealogy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Charles K. Bellinger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2001-05-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0195134982 |
Bellinger draws on the thought of Søoren Kierkegaard and René Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. After analysing approaches to understanding violence he goes on to consider Kierkegaard as a theorist of violence.
The Genealogy of Violence
Title | The Genealogy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Charles K. Bellinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Violence |
ISBN |
The Genealogy of Violence
Title | The Genealogy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Charles K. Bellinger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2001-04-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198030843 |
Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and confusing results. This book brings Kierkegaard's voice into this conversation in a powerful way, arguing that the Christian intellectual tradition offers the key philosophical tools needed for comprehending human pathology.
A Genealogy of Violence
Title | A Genealogy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Henk Schulte Nordholt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2000 |
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The Genealogy of Violence
Title | The Genealogy of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kilby Bellinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political violence |
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Genealogies of Terrorism
Title | Genealogies of Terrorism PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 023154717X |
What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. But acts of violence, like U.S. drone strikes that indiscriminately kill civilians, and mass shootings that become terrorist attacks when suspects are identified as Muslim, suggest that definitions of terrorism are always contested. In Genealogies of Terrorism, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power relations that shape how we understand and theorize political violence. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to late imperial Russia, colonized Algeria, and the post-9/11 United States, Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism. She offers an important corrective to attempts to develop universal definitions that assure semantic consistency and provide normative certainty, showing that terrorism means many different things and serves a wide range of political purposes. In the tradition of Michel Foucault’s genealogies, Erlenbusch-Anderson excavates the history of conceptual and practical uses of terrorism and maps the historically contingent political and material conditions that shape their emergence. She analyzes the power relations that make different modes of understanding terrorism possible and reveals their complicity in justifying the exercise of sovereign power in the name of defending the nation, class, or humanity against the terrorist enemy. Offering an engaged critique of terrorism and the mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables, Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.
Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)
Title | Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | DEBORAH. MIRANDA |
Publisher | Heyday Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781597145862 |
Newly expanded, a memoir hailed as essential by the likes of Leslie Marmon Silko and ELLE magazine Bad Indians--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Widely adopted in classrooms and book clubs throughout the United States, Bad Indians--now reissued in significantly expanded form for its 10th anniversary--plumbs ancestry, survivance, and the cultural memory of Native California. In this best-selling, now-classic memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experiences of California Indians more widely through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. This anniversary edition--the first time the book has seen release in hardcover format--includes new poems and essays, as well as an extensive afterword. Wise, indignant, and playful all at once, Bad Indians is a beautiful and devastating read, and an indispensable book for anyone seeking a more just telling of American history.