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New York Columbia University Press 2008 Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 154 p. New Directions in Critical Theory, 14. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008026511 Type of material Book Personal name Cavarero, Adriana. Uniform title Orrorismo. English Main title Horrorism: naming contemporary violence / Adriana Cavarero; translated by William McCuaig. Published/Created New York: Columbia University Press, c2009. Description viii, 154 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0231144563 (hard cover: alk. paper) 9780231144568 (hard cover: alk. paper) 0231519176 (e-book) 9780231519175 (e-book) LC classification HV6431. C38 2009 LC Subjects Terrorism. Notes Translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154). Series New directions in critical theory New directions in critical theory. Dewey class no. 303.6 Language code eng ita Other class no. 08.45 Other system no. (OCoLC)226360225 (OCoLC)ocn226360225
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Hardback. New. Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to capture the experience of violence. Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the Iliad, in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of Medea's children. In the modern arena, she forges a link between horror, extermination, and massacre, especially the Nazi death camps, and revisits the work of Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism, and Arendt's debate with Georges Bataille on the estheticization of violence and cruelty. In applying the horroristic paradigm to the current phenomena of suicide bombers, torturers, and hypertechnological warfare, Cavarero integrates Susan Sontag's views on photography and the erotic ...
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ISBN10: 0231144563, ISBN13: 9780231144568, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2008. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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