{"product_id":"violence-thinking-without-banisters-hardback-9780745670638","title":"Violence; Thinking without Banisters (Hardback) 9780745670638","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eViolence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThinking without Banisters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard J. Bernstein (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745670638, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.494 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A valuable book not only because it recognises the impossibility of timeless criteria for thinking about violence and the naïvety of an appeal to absolute non-violence, but also because it raises questions about the nature of political responsibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A major contribution to the seemingly intractable question of violence and nonviolence by one of the greatest philosophers of our time. I cannot recommend it highly enough.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"No one can converse with thinkers of the past or present like Richard J. Bernstein does. In the brilliant and timely hermeneutic exercise of this book, he provides us with new ways to understand the phenomenon of violence and its dialectical relation to public power and freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWe live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence. Our age could well be called “The Age of Violence” because representations of real or imagined violence, sometimes fused together, are pervasive. But what do we mean by violence? What can violence achieve? Are there limits to violence and, if so, what are they? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this new book Richard Bernstein seeks to answer these questions by examining the work of five figures who have thought deeply about violence - Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and Jan Assmann. He shows that we have much to learn from their work about the meaning of violence in our times. Through the critical examination of their writings he also brings out the limits of violence. There are compelling reasons to commit ourselves to non-violence, and yet at the same time we have to acknowledge that there are exceptional circumstances in which violence can be justified. Bernstein argues that there can be no general criteria for determining when violence is justified. The only plausible way of dealing with this issue is to cultivate publics in which there is free and open discussion and in which individuals are committed to listen to one other: when public debate withers, there is nothing to prevent the triumph of murderous violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments vi  \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Aporias of Carl Schmitt 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Walter Benjamin: Divine Violence? 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Hannah Arendt: On Power and Violence 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Violence 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Jan Assmann: The Mosaic Distinction and Religious Violence 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Reflections on NonViolence and Violence 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 185\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences 213\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eName Index 217\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubject Index 222\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407333454104,"sku":"9780745670638","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745670638.jpg?v=1784162854","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/violence-thinking-without-banisters-hardback-9780745670638","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}