Lode Lauwaert is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. He teaches philosophy of technology and researches violence, war and technology. Laura Katherine Smith is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Laura's research focuses on 20th century and contemporary art theory and visual culture.  Christian Sternad is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. His research specializes in human mortality, the phenomenology of death and ageing, and social and political issues such as the engagement of philosophers in the First World War.

• Introduction.- Part I: The Concept of Violence.- 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt.- 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lode Lauwaert.- Part II: Transcendental Violence.- 3. The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense, Felix Ó Murchadha.- 4. Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: Phenomenological Exploration, Michael Staudigl.- 5. The Violence of the Singular, Arthur Cools.- 6. Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibly of Violence, Jason Alvis.- Part III: Immanent Violence.- 7. The Double Meaning of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis, Nidesh Lawtoo.- 8. The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst Jünger Looking at Photographs of the First World War, Stéphane Symons and Tammy Castelein.- Part IV: Individual Violence.- 9. Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture, Jeremy Heuslein.- 10. Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz To A Politics of Revolt, Debra Bergoffen.- 11. Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence, Gavin Rae.

Lode Lauwaert is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. He teaches philosophy of technology and researches violence, war and technology. Laura Katherine Smith is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Laura's research focuses on 20th century and contemporary art theory and visual culture.  Christian Sternad is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. His research specializes in human mortality, the phenomenology of death and ageing, and social and political issues such as the engagement of philosophers in the First World War.

• Introduction.- Part I: The Concept of Violence.- 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt.- 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lode Lauwaert.- Part II: Transcendental Violence.- 3. The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense, Felix Ó Murchadha.- 4. Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: Phenomenological Exploration, Michael Staudigl.- 5. The Violence of the Singular, Arthur Cools.- 6. Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibly of Violence, Jason Alvis.- Part III: Immanent Violence.- 7. The Double Meaning of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis, Nidesh Lawtoo.- 8. The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst Jünger Looking at Photographs of the First World War, Stéphane Symons and Tammy Castelein.- Part IV: Individual Violence.- 9. Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture, Jeremy Heuslein.- 10. Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz To A Politics of Revolt, Debra Bergoffen.- 11. Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence, Gavin Rae.

Lode Lauwaert is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. He teaches philosophy of technology and researches violence, war and technology. Laura Katherine Smith is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Laura's research focuses on 20th century and contemporary art theory and visual culture.  Christian Sternad is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. His research specializes in human mortality, the phenomenology of death and ageing, and social and political issues such as the engagement of philosophers in the First World War.

• Introduction.- Part I: The Concept of Violence.- 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt.- 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lode Lauwaert.- Part II: Transcendental Violence.- 3. The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense, Felix Ó Murchadha.- 4. Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: Phenomenological Exploration, Michael Staudigl.- 5. The Violence of the Singular, Arthur Cools.- 6. Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibly of Violence, Jason Alvis.- Part III: Immanent Violence.- 7. The Double Meaning of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis, Nidesh Lawtoo.- 8. The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst Jünger Looking at Photographs of the First World War, Stéphane Symons and Tammy Castelein.- Part IV: Individual Violence.- 9. Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture, Jeremy Heuslein.- 10. Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz To A Politics of Revolt, Debra Bergoffen.- 11. Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence, Gavin Rae.