1st Edition
Critique of Violence Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory
By Beatrice Hanssen
Copyright 2000
324 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 On the Politics of Pure Means; Chapter 2 Between Kant and Nietzsche; Chapter 3 Power/Force/War; Chapter 4 The Violence of Language; Chapter 5 Violence and Interpretation; Chapter 6 Ethics of the Other; Chapter 7 Limits of Feminist Representation; Chapter 8 Whatever Happened to Feminist Theory?;
Biography
Beatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000).
