Violence and Meaning
This edited collection explores the problem of violence from the vantage point of meaning. Taking up the ambiguity of the word ‘meaning’, the chapters analyse the manner in which violence affects and in some cases constitutes the meaningful structur
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Violence and Meaning
Lode Lauwaert • Laura Katherine Smith Christian Sternad Editors
Violence and Meaning
Editors Lode Lauwaert Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium
Laura Katherine Smith KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium
Christian Sternad Husserl Archives KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-030-27172-5 ISBN 978-3-030-27173-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27173-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
Part I The Concept of Violence 1 1 Violence As Metaphor 3 Vasti Roodt 2 Violence and Essentialism? 27 Lode Lauwaert
Part II Transcendental Violence 39 3 The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense 41 Felix Ó Murchadha 4 Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Violence: A Phenomenological Exploration 59 Michael Staudigl
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5 The Violence of the Singular 91 Arthur Cools 6 Is Violence Inescapable? Derrida, Religion, and the Irreducibility of Violence111 Jason W. Alvis
Part III Immanent Violence 135 7 The Double Meanings of Violence: Catharsis and Mimesis137 Nidesh Lawtoo 8 The Last Second, or Eternity: Ernst Jünger Looking at Photographs of the First World War167 Stéphane Symons and Tammy Castelein
Part IV Individual Violence 189 9 Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture191 Jeremy Heuslein 10 Oppressed by Shame: From Auschwitz to a Politics of Revolt217 Debra Bergoffen 11 Forming the Individual: Castoriadis and Lacan on the Socio-symbolic F
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