Meanings of Violence

Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (2011); Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze (2014); The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (2016); and co-editor (with Emma Ingala) of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018).Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and Vice-Dean of Academic Organization in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She specializes in post-structuralist thought, political anthropology, feminist theory and psychoanalysis, and is the co-editor (with Gavin Rae) of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018).

• The Meanings of Violence: Introduction Gavin Rae and Emma IngalaPart I: Political Myth and Social Transformation1. Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon James Martel2. Violence, Divine or Otherwise: Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation Hjalmar Falk 3. Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel Robert P. Jackson 4. The Violence of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt and the Tragic Loss of Revolutionary Politics Liesbeth SchoonheimPart II: Sociality and Meaning 5. The World and the Embodied Subject: Humanism, Terror, and Violence Stephen A. Noble 6. Dialectics got the Upper Hand: Fanon, Violence, and the Quest[ion] of Liberation Nigel C. Gibson7. Sartre’s Later Work: Towards a Notion of Institutional Violence Marieke Mueller 8. The Original Polemos: Phenomenology and Violence in Jacques Derrida Valeria Campos-Salvaterra Part III: From Subjectivity to Biopolitics9. Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual Gavin Rae 10. Judith Butler: From a Formative Violence to an Ethics of Non-Violence Emma Ingala 11. Biopolitics and Resistance: The Meaning of Violence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben German Primera