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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Main Author: Avelar, Idelber, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Edition:1st ed
Series:New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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505 0 |a 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z 
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