The letter of violence : essays on narrative, ethics, and politics / / Idelber Avelar

• Autore: Avelar Idelber <1968->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 194 p
• Disciplina: 303.6
• Soggetto topico: Violence; Violence - Philosophy; Torture; Violence in literature; Latin American literature - History and criticism; Ethics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.
• Titolo autorizzato: The letter of violence
• ISBN: 1-281-36367-7; 9786611363673; 1-4039-7820-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812394503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Directions in Latino American Cultures