Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary - Couverture rigide

Murphy, Ann V.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438440316 ISBN 13 : 9781438440316

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2012

Synopsis

Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.

Images of violence enjoy a particular privilege in contemporary continental philosophy, one manifest in the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of a kind of rhetorical investment in violence as a motif. Such images have also informed, constrained, and motivated recent continental feminist theory. In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann V. Murphy takes note of wide-ranging references to the themes of violence and vulnerability in contemporary theory. She considers the ethical and political implications of this language of violence with the aim of revealing other ways in which identity and the social bond might be imagined, and encourages some critical distance from the images of violence that pervade philosophical critique.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ann V. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438440316
• ISBN 13: 9781438440316
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 146
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• Personne responsable: non disponible