1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822351703321

Autore

Murphy Ann V

Titolo

Violence and the philosophical imaginary / / Ann V. Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4619-0728-4

1-4384-4032-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in gender theory

Disciplina

303.601

Soggetti

Violence - Philosophy

Imagination (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thinking in images -- Philosophy's shame -- Violence, visibility, and identity politics -- The provocations of vulnerability -- What's in a name?: imagining vulnerability otherwise -- Assuming ambiguity -- Conclusion: witnessing the imaginary.

Sommario/riassunto

Images of violence enjoy a particular privilege in contemporary continental philosophy, one manifest in the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of a kind of rhetorical investment in violence as a motif. Such images have also informed, constrained, and motivated recent continental feminist theory. In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann V. Murphy takes note of wide-ranging references to the themes of violence and vulnerability in contemporary theory. She considers the ethical and political implications of this language of violence with the aim of revealing other ways in which identity and the social bond might be imagined, and encourages some critical distance from the images of violence that pervade philosophical critique.