1st Edition
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence A Skeptical Approach
By James Dodd
Copyright 2017
216 Pages
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Routledge
214 Pages
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Routledge
214 Pages
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Routledge
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Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology , James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of essence and the stable patterns of lived experience. Each essay tracks a discoverable, sometimes... Read more
Introduction
1. Concepts of Violence
2. Violence and Nonviolence
3. Violence and Religion (On Levinas)
4. The Metaphysical Root of Violence: On Schelling’s Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom
5. Total War: The Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars
6. The War Writings of Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl
Postscriptum
Biography
James Dodd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, USA. He is the author of Violence and Phenomenology (Routledge 2009).
