Monographie

Naming violence : a critical theory of genocide, torture, and terrorism / Mathias Thaler

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Naming violence : a critical theory of genocide, torture, and terrorism / Mathias Thaler
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • New York (N.Y.) : Columbia University Press
Date de copyright
  • C 2018
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (X-236 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection
  • New directions in critical theory
ISBN
  • 978-0-231-18814-2
  • 0-231-18814-5
EAN
  • 9780231188142 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • New directions in critical theory
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 303.6
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [205]-228. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence. Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates about violence across a number of different disciplines from film studies to history."
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