{"product_id":"violence-9780745670645","title":"Violence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can   t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable book not only because it recognises the impossibility of timeless criteria for thinking about violence and the naïvety of an appeal to absolute non-violence, but also because it raises questions about the nature of political responsibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A major contribution to the seemingly intractable question of violence and nonviolence by one of the greatest philosophers of our time. I cannot recommend it highly enough.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"No one can converse with thinkers of the past or present like Richard J. Bernstein does. In the brilliant and timely hermeneutic exercise of this book, he provides us with new ways to understand the phenomenon of violence and its dialectical relation to public power and freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Aporias of Carl Schmitt 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Walter Benjamin: Divine Violence? 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Hannah Arendt: On Power and Violence 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Violence 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Jan Assmann: The Mosaic Distinction and Religious Violence 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Reflections on NonViolence and Violence 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 185\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences 213\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eName Index 217\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubject Index 222\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404416754007,"sku":"9780745670645","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745670645.jpg?v=1730486406","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-9780745670645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}