LEADER 04042cam a2200433 a 4500001 215004 005 20240621184636.0 008 110128t20092009nyu b 000 0 eng 010 2008026511 020 0231144563 |qhardcover |qalkaline paper 020 9780231144568 |qhardcover |qalkaline paper 020 0231519176 |qe-book 020 9780231519175 |qe-book 035 (OCoLC)ocn226360225 035 215004 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hita 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dC#P |dBWX |dCDX |dIXA |dNLGGC |dYBM |dMOF |dSNK |dUPP |dGEBAY |dOCLCQ |dLHM 050 00 HV6431 |b.C38 2009 100 1 Cavarero, Adriana. 240 10 Orrorismo. |lEnglish 245 10 Horrorism : |bnaming contemporary violence / |cAdriana Cavarero ; translated by William McCuaig. 264 1 New York : |bColumbia University Press, |c[2009] 264 4 |c©2009 300 viii, 154 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 New directions in critical theory 500 Translated from the Italian. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-154). 505 0 Etymologies : "terror", or, on surviving -- Etymologies : "horror", or, on dismembering -- On war -- The howl of Medusa -- The vulnerability of the helpless -- The crime of Medea -- Horrorism, or, on violence against the helpless -- Those who have seen the Gorgon -- Auschwitz, or, on extreme horror -- Erotic carnages -- So mutilated that it might be the body of a pig -- The warrior's pleasure -- Worldwide aggressiveness -- For a history of terror -- Suicidal horrorism -- When the bomb is a woman's body -- Female torturers grinning at the camera. 520 1 "Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--To capture the experience of violence." "Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the Iliad, in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of Medea's children. In the modern arena, she forges a link between horror, extermination, and massacre, especially the Nazi death camps, and revisits the work of Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism, and Arendt's debate with Georges Bataille on the estheticization of violence and cruelty." "In applying the horroristic paradigm to the current phenomena of suicide bombers, torturers, and hypertechnological warfare, Cavarero integrates Susan Sontag's views on photography and the eroticization of horror, as well as ideas on violence and the state advanced by Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. Through her searing analysis, Caverero proves that violence against the helpless claims a specific vocabulary, one that has been known for millennia, and not just to the Western tradition. Where common language fails to form a picture of atrocity, horrorism paints a brilliant portrait of its vivid reality."--Jacket. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Terrorism. 776 08 |iOnline version:Cavarero, Adriana. |sOrrorismo. English. |tHorrorism. |dNew York : Columbia University Press, c2009 |w(OCoLC)609102358 830 0 New directions in critical theory. 856 42 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008026511.html 852 0 |bstacks |hHV6431 |i.C38 2009