Author : Ann V. Murphy
Release : 2012-04-11
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary by : Ann V. Murphy
Download or read book Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary written by Ann V. Murphy. This book was released on 2012-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of violence enjoy a particular privilege in contemporary continental philosophy, one manifest in the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of a kind of rhetorical investment in violence as a motif. Such images have also informed, constrained, and motivated recent continental feminist theory. In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann V. Murphy takes note of wide-ranging references to the themes of violence and vulnerability in contemporary theory. She considers the ethical and political implications of this language of violence with the aim of revealing other ways in which identity and the social bond might be imagined, and encourages some critical distance from the images of violence that pervade philosophical critique.