The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics.

This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Avelar, Idelber, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:New Directions in Latino American Culture Ser.
Subjects:
Violence.
Violence > Philosophy.
Torture.
Violence in literature.
Latin American literature > History and criticism.
Ethics.
Violence > Philosophie.
Violence dans la littérature.
Littérature latino-américaine > Histoire et critique.
Morale.
violence.
ethics (philosophy)
Literary studies: general.
History of the Americas.
Literature.
Ethics
Latin American literature
Torture
Violence
Violence in literature
Violence > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth; Chapter 2 Thinking Ethics across Neocolonial Borders: Borges, Ethical Theory, and the International Division of Intellectual Labor; Chapter 3 Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida; Chapter 4 Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia; Afterword: Violence, Law, and Justice; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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