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On Violence : a Reader by Hitler Adolf; Breton André; Gramsci Antonio; Lawrence Bruce B; Mackinnon Catharine; Muzaffar Chandra; Martin Del; Leyton Elliott; Fanon Frantz; Engels Friedrich; Guattari Félix; Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Deleuze Gilles; Arendt Hannah; Scott James C; Cone James; Aisha Karim; Marx Karl; Stiles Kristine; Bruce B Lawrence; Trotsky Leon; GordonXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Linda; XXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Malcolm; TaussigXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Michael; FoucaultXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Michel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is On Violence : a Reader about?

This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it. On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence—Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X—and by crit

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Author

Hitler Adolf; Breton André; Gramsci Antonio; Lawrence Bruce B; Mackinnon Catharine; Muzaffar Chandra; Martin Del; Leyton Elliott; Fanon Frantz; Engels Friedrich; Guattari Félix; Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Deleuze Gilles; Arendt Hannah; Scott James C; Cone James; Aisha Karim; Marx Karl; Stiles Kristine; Bruce B Lawrence; Trotsky Leon; GordonXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Linda; XXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Malcolm; TaussigXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Michael; FoucaultXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Michel

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612923463

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Philosophy

Rating

3.81 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14