Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary (SUNY series in by Ann V. Murphy
By Ann V. Murphy
Images of violence get pleasure from a selected privilege in modern continental philosophy, one happen within the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of one of those rhetorical funding in violence as a motif. Such photographs have additionally knowledgeable, restricted, and stimulated contemporary continental feminist concept. In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann V. Murphy takes observe of wide-ranging references to the topics of violence and vulnerability in modern conception. She considers the moral and political implications of this language of violence with the purpose of showing alternative ways within which id and the social bond can be imagined, and encourages a few serious distance from the pictures of violence that pervade philosophical critique.
“…a concise and insightful exploration of the motif of violence inside of 20th- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy … Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary is an important addition to contemporary rereadings of Beauvoir’s oeuvre, in particular her moral interval writings … a accurately written and demanding ebook for somebody drawn to feminist ethics, violence, or modern continental philosophy.” — Hypatia
“In brief, Murphy’s fascinating publication returns our awareness to the paradox of our precarious lives and the overflowing imaginaries that animate them; we movement from descriptive to prescriptive claims in basic terms via exercise severe restraint, such that we'd do justice to our lived complexity.” — APA Newsletter
“Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary makes a special and memorable contribution to modern discussions of violence. what's distinctive concerning the process of the e-book is that, from a place squarely at the facet of nonviolence, Ann Murphy embarks on a serious research of reviews of violence. this can be as courageous because it is necessary.” — Rosalyn Diprose, writer of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas
Ann V. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
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