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Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

Murphy, Ann V.

Paperback

Series: Suny Gender Theory

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438440308
ISBN13: 9781438440309
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jan 2 2013
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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