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Manhunts [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical history / / Grégoire Chamayou ; translated by Steven Rendall



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Autore: Chamayou Grégoire Visualizza persona
Titolo: Manhunts [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical history / / Grégoire Chamayou ; translated by Steven Rendall Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 303.6
Soggetto topico: Hunting - Philosophy
Lynching
Minorities - Crimes against
Violence - Philosophy
Noncitizens
Soggetto non controllato: African slavery
Africans
American Indians
Christian pastoralism
Greeks
Indian hunting
Jews
New World
Nimrod
Ren Girard
Western capitalism
acquisition hunts
acquisition
ancient Greece
anti-Semitism
authority
begging
blacks
capture
collective mobilization
conquest
cynegetic power
cynegetic powers
domination
enslavement
exclusion
extermination hunts
foreign workers
foreigners
heretics
hunted
hunter
hunting
immigrant workers
internment
interpredation
legal exclusion
legal protection
lynching
manhunting
manhunts
marginal society
master
modern slavery
pack hunting
pastoral hunting
pastoral hunts
pastoralists
persecution
police
policing
political status
political thought
poor
poverty
power
predator
predatory power
prey
protectionism
protective power
pursuit
racist violence
right-wing movements
sexist violence
slave labor
slave
slavery
state power
stateless people
subhuman
tracking
violence
xenophobia
xenophobic violence
Altri autori: RendallSteven  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Hunt for Bipedal Cattle -- Chapter 2. Nimrod, or Cynegetic Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. Diseased Sheep and Wolf-Men -- Chapter 4. Hunting Indians -- Chapter 5. Hunting Black Skins -- Chapter 6. The Dialectic of the Hunter and the Hunted -- Chapter 7. Hunting the Poor -- Chapter 8. Police Hunts -- Chapter 9. The Hunting Pack and Lynching -- Chapter 10. Hunting Foreigners -- Chapter 11. Hunting Jews -- Chapter 12. Hunting Illegals -- CONCLUSION -- POSTSCRIPT -- NOTES -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dangerous simply for existing, or been categorized as subhuman or dispensable. Chamayou begins in ancient Greece, where young Spartans hunted and killed Helots (Sparta's serfs) as an initiation rite, and where Aristotle and other philosophers helped to justify raids to capture and enslave foreigners by creating the concept of natural slaves. He discusses the hunt for heretics in the Middle Ages; New World natives in the early modern period; vagrants, Jews, criminals, and runaway slaves in other eras; and illegal immigrants today. Exploring evolving ideas about the human and the subhuman, what we owe to enemies and people on the margins of society, and the supposed legitimacy of domination, Chamayou shows that the hunting of humans should not be treated ahistorically, and that manhunting has varied as widely in its justifications and aims as in its practices. He investigates the psychology of manhunting, noting that many people, from bounty hunters to Balzac, have written about the thrill of hunting when the prey is equally intelligent and cunning. An unconventional history on an unconventional subject, Manhunts is an in-depth consideration of the dynamics of an age-old form of violence.
Titolo autorizzato: Manhunts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-51931-3
9786613831767
1-4008-4225-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779259503321
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