E-Book, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory
Murphy Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4032-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4032-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: Violence, Reflexivity, Critique
1. Thinking in Images
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Feminism and the Motif of Violence
Genealogy and Violence
2. Philosophy’s Shame
Shame and the Philosophical Imaginary
Philosophy and Its Others
Shame and the Discourse on Difference
3. Violence, Visibility, and Identity Politics
Philosophy, Identity, and Violence
The Defense of Identity Politics
The Visible and the Real
Sexuality and Spectacle
PART TWO: Vulnerability, Ambiguity, Responsibility
4. The Provocations of Vulnerability
Feminist Philosophy and the Vulnerable Body
Ethical Ambiguity and Corporeal Vulnerability
A Phenomenology of Touch
Framing Violence and Vulnerability
5. What’s in a Name? Imagining Vulnerability Otherwise
Uniqueness and the Human
Ontological Virtue
Ontological Vice
An Ethics of the Singular
6. Assuming Ambiguity: The Body and Ethical Life
Ambiguity in Beauvoir’s Early Work
Vulnerability Revisited
Assuming Ambiguity
Freedom and Violence
Conclusion: Witnessing the Imaginary
References
Index