Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av John Lechte, Macquarie University) Lechte, John (Emeritus Professor

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What is violence what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille, Agamben and Girard thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the image, a connection that shows what it means to be a victim.?Separate chapters are devoted to the study of violence and the image as these appear in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard.?The book concludes that no study of violence and the image can avoid engaging with the issue of the injustice of being a victim.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-28
Mått138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt310 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399519786

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John Lechte is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is best know for his writing on French philosophers, Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille and for his best selling Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 2006). He is co-editor of Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence (EUP, 2015) and The Kristeva Critical Reader (EUP, 2003). His most recent book is The Human (Bloomsbury, 2020).

One of the great undisclosed threads in contemporary theory lies in the connection between thinkers seemingly as diverse as Bataille, Agamben and Girard. Though each deals in their writing with sacrifice, victimization and violence, rarely do we find these thinkers conjoined in a study of their shared and divergent perspectives. What Lechte delivers in these pages is a highly original presentation of how a critical analysis of these thinkers might assist us in finding the truth behind the images routinely presented in our world. This is an insight, he successfully argues, which can only be illuminated by addressing how the mechanisms of sacrifice and violence ceaselessly continue to function behind nearly everything we see.