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Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory
Author: Beatrice Hanssen
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Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamins essay Critique of Violence as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other. In the course of doing so, she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin, Arendt, Fanon and Foucault, and incisively explores the politics of recognition, the violence of language, and the future of feminist theory.This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy, political theory, social studies and comparative literature.Also available in this seriesEssays on OthernessHb 0-415-13107-3 50.00Pb 0-415-13108-1 15.99Hegel After DerridaHb 0-415-17104-4 50.00Pb 0-415-17105-9 15.99The Hypocritical ImaginationHb 0-415-21361-4 47.50Pb 0-415-21362-2 15.99Philosophy and TragedyHb 0-415-19141-6 45.00Pb 0-415-19142-4 14.99Textures of LightHb 0-415-14273-3 42.50Pb 0-415-14274-1 13.99Very Little ... Almost NothingPb 0-415-12821-8 47.50Pb 0-415-12822-6 15.99ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000).
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Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamins essay Critique of Violence as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other. In the course of doing so, she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin, Arendt, Fanon and Foucault, and incisively explores the politics of recognition, the violence of language, and the future of feminist theory.This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy, political theory, social studies and comparative literature.Also available in this seriesEssays on OthernessHb 0-415-13107-3 50.00Pb 0-415-13108-1 15.99Hegel After DerridaHb 0-415-17104-4 50.00Pb 0-415-17105-9 15.99The Hypocritical ImaginationHb 0-415-21361-4 47.50Pb 0-415-21362-2 15.99Philosophy and TragedyHb 0-415-19141-6 45.00Pb 0-415-19142-4 14.99Textures of LightHb 0-415-14273-3 42.50Pb 0-415-14274-1 13.99Very Little ... Almost NothingPb 0-415-12821-8 47.50Pb 0-415-12822-6 15.99ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). ReviewDisplaying a sovereign mastery of contemporary critical theory in all its motley variety, Beatrice Hanssen strives to rescue the most compelling arguments from each tradition to lessen the darkness that surrounds the intractable problem of violence.Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyBeatrice Hanssen is one of the most sophisticated theorists of her generation...her rich notion of inter-cultures (rather than contenders) in contemporary ideological battles lowers the heat, casts much light and enables us to force new forms of solidarity.Cornel West, Harvard UniversityBeatrice Hanssen has conducted a fascinating exploration of social and political theory, from Hegel to Fanon, by way of Benjamin and Arendt, and into our post-structural present, through the prism of the question of violence. Cosmopolitan in its range and subtle in its readings, this is a book from which I learned a great deal.K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University...an excellent book... Beatrice Hanssen writes very clearly, her approach is very innovative and I have found many of her reflexions very suggestive.Chantal Mouffe, University of WestminsterAbout the AuthorBeatrice Hanssen was trained in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University and is Associat Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Walter Benhamins Other History Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000).
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