Overview
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. "
- | Author: James Dodd
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: May 05, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 202 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0415791898
- | ISBN-13: 9780415791892
