Violence and Meaning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lauwaert, Lode (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Smith, Laura Katherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sternad, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Phenomenology .; Social Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Phenomenology.

This edited collection explores the problem of violence from the vantage point of meaning. Taking up the ambiguity of the word 'meaning', the chapters analyse the manner in which violence affects and in some cases constitutes the meaningful structure of our lifeworld, on individual, social...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: The Concept of Violence
• 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt
• 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lode Lauwaert
• Part II: Transcendental Violence
• 3. The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense, Felix Ó Murchadha
• 4. Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: Phenomenological Exploration, Michael Staudigl
• 5. The Violence of the Singular, Arthur Cools
• 6. Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibly of Violence, Jason Alvis
• Part III: Immanent Violence
• 7. The Double Meaning of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis, Nidesh Lawtoo
• 8. The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst Jünger Looking at Photographs of the First World War, Stéphane Symons and Tammy Castelein
• Part IV: Individual Violence
• 9. Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture, Jeremy Heuslein
• 10. Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz To A Politics of Revolt, Debra Bergoffen
• 11. Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence, Gavin Rae.