Theoretical Reflections on Violence and Religion
Author | : Francisco P. Díez de Velasco Abellán |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Francisco P. Díez de Velasco Abellán |
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Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : James Dodd |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351814893 |
This book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of essence and the stable patterns of lived experience. They are readings as much as they are reflections; attempts at interpretation as much as they are attempts to push concepts of violence to their limits. They draw upon a range of different authors and historical moments, but without any attempt to reduce them into a series of examples elucidating a comprehensive theory. The aim is to follow a path of distinctively episodic and provisional modes of thinking and reflection that offers a potential glimpse at how violence can be understood.
Author | : Georges Sorel |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486121151 |
A noted revolutionary voices his belief in class warfare as a means of effecting lasting social change. His searching inquiry extends to the functions of violence, the sources of political power, and more.
Author | : Charles K. Bellinger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2001-04-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190285532 |
Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and confusing results. This book brings Kierkegaard's voice into this conversation in a powerful way, arguing that the Christian intellectual tradition offers the key philosophical tools needed for comprehending human pathology.
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1503627683 |
Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
Author | : Georges Sorel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521559102 |
A CTPT rendition of a controversial and important text.
Author | : David Martin |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781409406693 |
The Future of Christianity offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, and acts as a complement to his earlier volume, On Secularization. Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into vast religious changes in the developing world.
Author | : Ednan Aslan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3658183020 |
In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident that many impulses from this work will also impact the direction of churches and other religious communities, such that religions, all together, will try to mobilize the members of their communities to actively contribute to world peace. In this way, religions will be perceived as part of the solution for world peace, enabling them to move beyond the stigma of their damaged reputations.
Author | : Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429670516 |
How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition to providing valuable insights into these important incidents, the authors – social scientists and historians of comparative religion – are responding to the theoretical issues articulated by René Girard in Violence and the Sacred (1977). The present volume is the first book of essays to test Girard’s theories about the social significance of religious symbols of violence against real, rather than symbolic, acts. In some cases his theories are found to be applicable; in other cases, the authors provide alternative theories of their own. In a concluding essay, co-authored by Mark Anspach, Girard provides a response.
Author | : James Dodd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351814885 |
Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of essence and the stable patterns of lived experience. Each essay tracks a discoverable, sometimes familiar figure of violence, while at the same time questioning its limits and revealing sites of its resistance to conceptualization. Dodd’s essays are readings as much as they are reflections; attempts at interpretation as much as they are attempts to push concepts of violence to their limits. They draw upon a range of different authors—Sartre, Levinas, Schelling, Scheler, and Husserl—and historical moments, but without any attempt to reduce them into a series of examples elucidating a comprehensive theory. The aim is to follow a path of distinctively episodic and provisional modes of thinking and reflection that offers a potential glimpse at how violence can be understood.