Violence : thinking without banisters /

Bernstein, Richard J.

Violence : thinking without banisters / Richard J. Bernstein. - ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The aporias of Carl Schmitt -- Walter Benjamin : divine violence? -- Hannah Arendt : on violence and power -- Frantz Fanon's Critique of violence -- Jan Assmann : the mosaic distinction and religious violence -- Reflections on nonviolence and violence.

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Violence--Philosophy.
Violence--Philosophy.

B 844 .B47 2013