
The Trial of Hatred
An Essay on the Refusal of Violence
Marc Crepon(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 9. November 2021
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4744-8025-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crepon makes a compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times. With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today.
Reviews / Votes
Crepon's The Trial of Hatred is an extremely timely book that asks how it is possible to continue to support peace, to be on the side of non-violence, in the face of widespread violence, in short, how it is possible to face and survive the trial of hatred in times of conflict and war. -- Michael Naas, DePaul UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8025-3 (9781474480253)
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Persons
Marc Crepon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in French and German philosophy and in contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has translated works by philosophers including Nietzsche, Franz Rosenzweig and Leibniz. Marc Crepon was the co-founder, along with Bernard Stiegler, of the association Ars Industrialis.
He has travelled and lectured at American universities, including University of California, Irvine and Rice University. He also taught classes while in residence at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2006 and 2008.
He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. His books in English are The Thought of Death and the Memory of War (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018) and Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death (Fordham University Press, 2019).
D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University. He is co-translator of Marc Crepon's The Trial of Hatred (EUP, 2021) and The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018). He is editor of Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion by Catherine Malabou.
He has travelled and lectured at American universities, including University of California, Irvine and Rice University. He also taught classes while in residence at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2006 and 2008.
He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. His books in English are The Thought of Death and the Memory of War (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018) and Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death (Fordham University Press, 2019).
D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University. He is co-translator of Marc Crepon's The Trial of Hatred (EUP, 2021) and The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018). He is editor of Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion by Catherine Malabou.
Author
Professor of PhilosophyEcole Normale Superieure in Paris, France
Translation
Research Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative LiteratureState University of New York at Buffalo
Assistant Professor of the Humanities.Midwestern State University
Content
Preface: From Murderous Consent to the Trial of Hatred in the Vocation of Writing
Part I: The Experience of Violence
Intimacy
Countering Violence
Levees that Break
Broken Confidence
Hatred and Violence
Terror
Critique of Identity
The Call for Critique
Limits and Contradictions of Politics
The Voice of Conscience
Necessity and Conditions of Ethics
Part II: Vanquishing Hatred: Jaures, Rolland, Gandhi, King, Mandela
The Fatherland, a Murderous Idol?
Of Hatred
Nonviolence and Revolution
The 'Snares of Identity'
Exiting Apartheid
On the Memory of a Genocide
Conclusion: Responding to Hatred and Violence
Notes
Part I: The Experience of Violence
Intimacy
Countering Violence
Levees that Break
Broken Confidence
Hatred and Violence
Terror
Critique of Identity
The Call for Critique
Limits and Contradictions of Politics
The Voice of Conscience
Necessity and Conditions of Ethics
Part II: Vanquishing Hatred: Jaures, Rolland, Gandhi, King, Mandela
The Fatherland, a Murderous Idol?
Of Hatred
Nonviolence and Revolution
The 'Snares of Identity'
Exiting Apartheid
On the Memory of a Genocide
Conclusion: Responding to Hatred and Violence
Notes