Naming Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming Violence write by Mathias Thaler. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Naming Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to “enhanced interrogation techniques” or to “torture,” whether a person is called a “terrorist” or a “patriot.” Do these decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted criteria, or are they determined by power structures and partisanship? How is the language we use for violence entangled with the fight against it? In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence. Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates about violence across a number of different disciplines from film studies to history.
Horrorism
Horrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horrorism write by Adriana Cavarero. This book was released on 2009. Horrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Words like 'terrorism' and 'war' are no longer capable of encompassing the scope of cntemporary violence. With this book, Cavarero effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word, 'horrorism', to capture the experience of violence.
Naming the Violence
Naming the Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming the Violence write by Lobel. This book was released on 1993-02-03. Naming the Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays tell the stories of battered lesbians and discuss community organizingctivities, support groups, and the possible causes of this form of domesticiolence.
Violence in God's Name
Violence in God's Name - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence in God's Name write by Oliver J. McTernan. This book was released on 2003. Violence in God's Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely exploration of the links between religious faith and global violence--and how to break them.
Not in God's Name
Not in God's Name - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not in God's Name write by Jonathan Sacks. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Not in God's Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner*** In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit—that is, my religion is the only right path to God, therefore your religion is by definition wrong—and individuals are motivated by what Rabbi Sacks calls “altruistic evil,” violence between peoples of different beliefs appears to be the only natural outcome. But through an exploration of the roots of violence and its relationship to religion, and employing groundbreaking biblical analysis and interpretation, Rabbi Sacks shows that religiously inspired violence has as its source misreadings of biblical texts at the heart of all three Abrahamic faiths. By looking anew at the book of Genesis, with its foundational stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. “Abraham himself,” writes Rabbi Sacks, “sought to be a blessing to others regardless of their faith. That idea, ignored for many of the intervening centuries, remains the simplest definition of Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry . . . To invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege.” Here is an eloquent call for people of goodwill from all faiths and none to stand together, confront the religious extremism that threatens to destroy us, and declare: Not in God’s Name.
