
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence
A Skeptical Approach
James Dodd(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2017
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-0-415-79189-2 (ISBN)
Description
Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book's six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of essence and the stable patterns of lived experience. Each essay tracks a discoverable, sometimes familiar figure of violence, while at the same time questioning its limits and revealing sites of its resistance to conceptualization. Dodd's essays are readings as much as they are reflections; attempts at interpretation as much as they are attempts to push concepts of violence to their limits. They draw upon a range of different authors-Sartre, Levinas, Schelling, Scheler, and Husserl-and historical moments, but without any attempt to reduce them into a series of examples elucidating a comprehensive theory. The aim is to follow a path of distinctively episodic and provisional modes of thinking and reflection that offers a potential glimpse at how violence can be understood.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-79189-2 (9780415791892)
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Person
James Dodd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, USA. He is the author of Violence and Phenomenology (Routledge 2009).
Content
Introduction
1. Concepts of Violence
2. Violence and Nonviolence
3. Violence and Religion (On Levinas)
4. The Metaphysical Root of Violence: On Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom
5. Total War: The Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars
6. The War Writings of Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl
Postscriptum
1. Concepts of Violence
2. Violence and Nonviolence
3. Violence and Religion (On Levinas)
4. The Metaphysical Root of Violence: On Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom
5. Total War: The Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars
6. The War Writings of Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl
Postscriptum