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Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Werner Hamacher, Samuel Weber, and others rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities-individual, collective, political, cultural, religious, and secular.

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Introduction Hent de Vries and Samual Weber 1. Violence and testimony: on sacrificing sacrifice Hent de Vries 2. Monastic violence M. B. Pranger 3. Characteristic violence, or, the physiognomy of style Marian Hobson 4. Wartime Samuel Weber 5. The camp as the Nomos of the modern Giorgio Agamben 6. Enlightenment and Paranomia Stathis Gourgouris 7. Cannibals all: the grave wit of Kant's perpetual peace Susan M. Shell 8. Otherwise than self-determination: the mortal freedom of Oedipus Asphaleos Michael Dillon 9. The victim's tale: memory and forgetting in the story of violence Peter van der Veer 10. Eroticism, colonialism, and violence Ali Behdad 11. Traumatic awakenings Cathy Caruth 12. Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body Anselm Haverkamp and Cornelia Vismann 13. On the politics of pure means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault Beatrice Hanssen 14. Marx, mourning, messianicity Peter Fenves 15. Violence, identity, self-determination, and the question of justice: on Specters of Marx Peggy Kamuf 16. One to many multiculturalisms Werner Hamacher 17. ... and pomegranates Jacques Derrida Notes.

Violence Identity and Selfdetermination

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 December 1997
      ISBN-13 9780804729963
      978-0804729963
      ISBN-10 0804729964
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Werner Hamacher, Samuel Weber, and others rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities-individual, collective, political, cultural, religious, and secular.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Hent de Vries and Samual Weber 1. Violence and testimony: on sacrificing sacrifice Hent de Vries 2. Monastic violence M. B. Pranger 3. Characteristic violence, or, the physiognomy of style Marian Hobson 4. Wartime Samuel Weber 5. The camp as the Nomos of the modern Giorgio Agamben 6. Enlightenment and Paranomia Stathis Gourgouris 7. Cannibals all: the grave wit of Kant's perpetual peace Susan M. Shell 8. Otherwise than self-determination: the mortal freedom of Oedipus Asphaleos Michael Dillon 9. The victim's tale: memory and forgetting in the story of violence Peter van der Veer 10. Eroticism, colonialism, and violence Ali Behdad 11. Traumatic awakenings Cathy Caruth 12. Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body Anselm Haverkamp and Cornelia Vismann 13. On the politics of pure means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault Beatrice Hanssen 14. Marx, mourning, messianicity Peter Fenves 15. Violence, identity, self-determination, and the question of justice: on Specters of Marx Peggy Kamuf 16. One to many multiculturalisms Werner Hamacher 17. ... and pomegranates Jacques Derrida Notes.

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