{"product_id":"on-violence-9780822337560","title":"On Violence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrimary texts on violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume provides a long-needed anthology of major writings related to the subject of violence. The readings include excerpts from classic contributions of Marx and Freud along with pieces by modern thinkers such as Girard and Bourdieu and social activists from Gandhi to bin Laden. The selections are skillfully chosen to address a central theme, that violence always takes place in a context. The readings explore the idea that social, internal, ritualized, and other forms of violence are part of the processes of life and not necessarily anomalies. This is a thoughtful and arresting set of essays on an important topic that will be useful in the classroom and much discussed in the public forum.”—Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of \u003ci\u003eTerror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his anthology is a triumph of editorial serendipity.” -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e“Even though its tone is unremittingly gloomy, reading through \u003ci\u003eOn Violence\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an impressive selection of thinkers about this vexed subject. The brilliance of this collection lies in the editors’ courage to include unpalatable writings alongside noble ones.” -- Tim Roberts * M\/C Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“Offering an eclectic roster of voices on the subject, this useful reader also raises the suspicion that the history of violence is a red herring. The pervasiveness of violence makes it difficult to distinguish violence from change, or history itself. Violent change requires some kind of ethical marker to make narrative sense as history. Violence is never morally or politically neutral: context is everything.” -- Priya Satia * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17\u003cbr\u003e Phenomenology of Spirit \/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27\u003cbr\u003e Anti-Duhring \/ Friedrich Engels 39\u003cbr\u003e Capital: A Critique of Political Economy \/ Karl Heinrich Marx 62\u003cbr\u003e Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) \/ Frantz Fanon 78\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Other of Violence 101\u003cbr\u003e Actors \u003cbr\u003e Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule \/ Mohandas K. Gandhi 110\u003cbr\u003e The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) \/ Adolf Hitler 127\u003cbr\u003e The Ballot or the Bullet \/ Malcolm X 143\u003cbr\u003e Critics \u003cbr\u003e Selections from the Prison Notebooks \/ Antonio Gramsci 158\u003cbr\u003e Keywords; Marxism and Literature \/ Raymond Wiliams 180\u003cbr\u003e Outline of a Theory of Practice \/ Pierre Bourdieu 188\u003cbr\u003e Domination and the Arts of Resistance \/ James C. Scott 199\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215\u003cbr\u003e Familial \u003cbr\u003e Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego \/ Sigmund Freud 226\u003cbr\u003e Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) \/ Linda Gordon 245\u003cbr\u003e Battered Wives \/ Del Martin 255\u003cbr\u003e Legal \u003cbr\u003e The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) \/ Bruce B. Lawrence 262\u003cbr\u003e Critique of Violence (Reflections) \/ Walter Benjamin 268\u003cbr\u003e Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory \/ Catharine MacKimmon 286\u003cbr\u003e Violence and the Word \/ Robert M. Cover 292\u003cbr\u003e Human Rights and the New World Order \/ Chandra Muzaffar 314\u003cbr\u003e Religious \u003cbr\u003e Violence and the Sacred \/ Rene Girard 334\u003cbr\u003e Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) \/ James Cone 351\u003cbr\u003e Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity) \/ Sharon Welch 362\u003cbr\u003e The Iliad, or the Poem of Force \/ Simone Weil 377\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The State of Violence 391\u003cbr\u003e Leviathon \/ Thomas Hobbes 399\u003cbr\u003e The Origins of Totalitarianism \/ Hannah Arendt 416\u003cbr\u003e Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison \/ Michel Foucault 444\u003cbr\u003e Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) \/ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 472\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Representation of Violence 491\u003cbr\u003e Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art \/ Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky 498\u003cbr\u003e Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing \/ Michael Tuaussig 503\u003cbr\u003e Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma \/ Kristine Stiles 522\u003cbr\u003e Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places \/ Osama Bin Laden; In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood \/ Roland Jacquard 539\u003cbr\u003e Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis \/ Elliott Leyton 547\u003cbr\u003e Copyright Acknowledgments 555\u003cbr\u003e Index 559","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534990803287,"sku":"9780822337560","price":133.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337560.jpg?v=1755858512","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-violence-9780822337560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}