| Description |
xii, 401 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Hent De Vries and Samuel Weber -- Violence and Testimony: On Sacrificing Sacrifice / Hent De Vries -- Monastic Violence / M. B. Pranger -- Characteristic Violence; or, The Physiognomy of Style / Marian Hobson -- Wartime / Samuel Weber -- The Camp as the Nomos of the Modern / Giorgio Agamben -- Enlightenment and Paranomia / Stathis Gourgouris -- Cannibals All: The Grave Wit of Kant's Perpetual Peace / Susan M. Shell -- Otherwise than Self-Determination: The Mortal Freedom of Oedipus Asphaleos / Michael Dillon -- The Victim's Tale: Memory and Forgetting in the Story of Violence / Peter Van Der Veer -- Eroticism, Colonialism, and Violence / Ali Behdad -- Traumatic Awakenings / Cathy Caruth -- Habeas Corpus: The Law's Desire to Have the Body / Anselm Haverkamp and Cornelia Vismann -- On the Politics of Pure Means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault / Beatrice Hanssen -- Marx, Mourning, Messianicity / Peter Fenves |
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Violence, Identity, Self-Determination, and the Question of Justice: On Specters of Marx / Peggy Kamuf -- One 2 Many Multiculturalisms / Werner Hamacher -- ... and pomegranates / Jacques Derrida |
| Notes |
"Proceedings of an international workshop held during the summer of 1995 in Amsterdam"--P. v |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-401) |
| Subject |
Autonomy (Psychology) -- Congresses.
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Political violence -- Congresses.
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Self-determination, National -- Congresses.
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Violence -- Congresses.
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Violence -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Vries, Hent de.
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Weber, Samuel, 1940-
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| LC no. |
97013450 |
| ISBN |
0804729956 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0804729964 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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