Violence and the philosophical imaginary / / Ann V. Murphy

• Autore: Murphy Ann V
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.601
• Soggetto topico: Violence - Philosophy; Imagination (Philosophy)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Violence and the philosophical imaginary
• ISBN: 1-4619-0728-4; 1-4384-4032-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822351703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in gender theory.