Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 240 g
Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6742-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
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.
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Introduction: 20th Century Thinking on Violence * Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida * Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth: From Plato to Pinochet * Ethics Across Neocolonial Borders: Jorge Luis Borges and the International Division of Intellectual Labor * Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia * Afterword: On Violence, Law, and Justice
