Overview
- Analyses violence from different perspectives within the continental tradition of philosophy such as phenomenology, post-structuralism, critical theory, and psychoanalysis
- Takes a multi-directional and multi-layered approach to violence and meaning
- Taps into the growing philosophical interest in violence which has emerged over the last three decades
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Concept of Violence
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Transcendental Violence
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About this book
This edited collection explores the problem of violence from the vantage point of meaning. Taking up the ambiguity of the word ‘meaning’, the chapters analyse the manner in which violence affects and in some cases constitutes the meaningful structure of our lifeworld, on individual, social, religious and conceptual levels. The relationship between violence and meaning is multifaceted, and is thus investigated from a variety of different perspectives within the continental tradition of philosophy, including phenomenology, post-structuralism, critical theory and psychoanalysis.
Divided into four parts, the volume explores diverging meanings of the concept of violence, as well as transcendent or religious violence- a form of violence that takes place between humanity and the divine world. Going on to investigate instances of immanent and secular violence, which occur at the level of the group, community or society, the book concludes with an exploration of violence and meaning on the individual level: violence at the level of the self, or between particular persons. With its focus on the manifold of relations between violence and meaning, as well as its four part focus on conceptual, transcendent, immanent and individual violence, the book is both multi-directional and multi-layered.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lode Lauwaert is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. He teaches philosophy of technology and researches violence, war and technology.
Laura Katherine Smith is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Laura's research focuses on 20th century and contemporary art theory and visual culture.
Christian Sternad is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. His research specializes in human mortality, the phenomenology of death and ageing, and social and political issues such as the engagement of philosophers in the First World War.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence and Meaning
Editors: Lode Lauwaert, Laura Katherine Smith, Christian Sternad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27173-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27172-5Published: 11 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27175-6Published: 13 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27173-2Published: 23 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Phenomenology