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Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

by 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 Benjamin's 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.
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When Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" first appeared in the journal Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft, it looked "quite out of place," as Gershom Scholem recalls in his Story of a Friendship.

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  • Title Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory
  • Author Beatrice Hanssen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2000-08-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415223393 / 0415223393
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Violence, Critical theory
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045123
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.601

About the author

Beatrice 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 Benhamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and an editor of The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000).

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