- Summary
- "The Subject of Violence is a critical investigation of violence and the subjectifying capacities. It both relies on and explores the work of Hannah Arendt. At its background are feminist concerns, but also concerns with violence that press against the feminist problematic and push its boundaries. The book's main project is ethico-political "understanding" and, therefore, it is also about finding an ethico-political language for violence that escapes the standard idioms in which violence is spoken. Weaving biographical fragments with theory, the book addresses the very thinking of violence, the possibility and implications of its comprehension, genocide (the Nazi Judeocide in particular) and nationalism (especially in its Zionist form), as well as women's encounters with violence and second-wave feminist engagement with the martial arts." -- Back cover.
- Series
- Feminist constructions
Feminist constructions.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Bar On, Bat-Ami, 1948-
- Published
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
©2002
- Contents
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Signs of Trauma
Thinking about Violence between Theory and (Auto) Biography
Shattered Worlds and Shocked Understandings
A Legacy of Women in Dark Times
Shapes of Violence
Thoughtless Action into Nature and The Violence of Genocide
An Excursus (Perhaps): Eichmann in Jerusalem and Post-Zionism
Violence in the Intersection of Nationalism and the State Form
Ambiguous Alternatives
Violent Bodies.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index.
Signs of Trauma -- Thinking about Violence between Theory and (Auto) Biography -- Shattered Worlds and Shocked Understandings -- A Legacy of Women in Dark Times -- Shapes of Violence -- Thoughtless Action into Nature and The Violence of Genocide -- An Excursus (Perhaps): Eichmann in Jerusalem and Post-Zionism -- Violence in the Intersection of Nationalism and the State Form -- Ambiguous Alternatives -- Violent Bodies.
