Description |
1 online resource (205 pages) |
Series |
New Directions in Latino American Culture Ser |
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New Directions in Latino American Culture Ser
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Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth; Chapter 2 Thinking Ethics across Neocolonial Borders: Borges, Ethical Theory, and the International Division of Intellectual Labor; Chapter 3 Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida; Chapter 4 Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia; Afterword: Violence, Law, and Justice; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Summary |
This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Violence.
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Violence -- Philosophy
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Torture.
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Violence in literature.
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism
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Ethics.
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violence.
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ethics (philosophy)
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Literary studies: general.
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History of the Americas.
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Literature.
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Ethics.
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Latin American literature.
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Torture.
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Violence.
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Violence in literature.
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Violence -- Philosophy.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781403978202 |
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9781403967411 |
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1403978204 |
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1403967415 |
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1281363677 |
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9781281363671 |
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