{"product_id":"ecce-humanitas-9780231184632","title":"Ecce Humanitas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, \u003ci\u003eEcce Humanitas \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvans does an excellent job of keeping a real political and social agenda in view. The book is full of wonderful insights and examples culled from a wide range of thinkers, artists, and writers, from Dante (a major figure in the text) to Gaston Bachelard and from Rodin to Rothko and Basquiat. And there is a powerful political message at the core of the book. -- James R. Martel * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e[An] excellent new book. -- Nicholas Michelsen * New Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a bold and brave intervention that clear-mindedly attempts to think the human in our current inhuman conditions of plague, ultra-violence, and the fading out of liberalism. If philosophy is its time comprehended in thought, then Evans has comprehended our time philosophically. Highly recommended. -- Simon Critchley, author of \u003ci\u003eTragedy, the Greeks, and Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA breathtaking exploration of violence and monstrosity by one of our leading political philosophers. How to make sense of the void that is, whether we want it or not, always gazing back at us? Brad Evans has courageously thrown himself into the void and as a result we can read this outstanding book that offers not only a fierce critique of liberal humanism but also points toward poetic alternatives that are more necessary than ever. -- Srećko Horvat, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEcce Humanitas, \u003c\/i\u003eBrad Evans has given us a manifesto for how to effectively address the cryptotheology that lies at the heart of Western modernity. Whereas we tend to think of the sacred as an archaic concept, Evans shows how it remains central to our lives; unrecognized, it wreaks havoc (violent havoc) upon subject populations. Evans proposes that we rethink the void that is at the heart of the sacred as a place of power and creativity and, in that way, both reaffirm the sacred and redeploy it against the very violent forces that it is ordinarily instantiates. In so doing, Evans has capped a highly successful career of studying violence with a way out and through its dangerous entanglements. This is a brave and extraordinarily timely work in a period when the threat of violence is particularly acute and ubiquitous. -- James Martel, author of \u003ci\u003eUnburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eForeword: An Obituary for the Liberal, by Jake Chapman\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Encountering the Void\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Sacrifice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Humanity Bound\u003cbr\u003e2. The Sacred Order of Politics\u003cbr\u003e3. The Shame of Being Human\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Fall of Liberal Humanism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e A Higher State of Killing\u003cbr\u003e5. The Death of the Victim\u003cbr\u003e6. A Sickness of Reason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Into the Void\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Annihilation\u003cbr\u003e8. The Transgressive Witness\u003cbr\u003e9. Wounds of Love\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400323572055,"sku":"9780231184632","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231184632.jpg?v=1730470389","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecce-humanitas-9780231184632","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}