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The weight of violence :

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0199453721

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9780199453726

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The weight of violence :

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[Book]

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religion, language, politics /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Saitya Brata Das and Soumyabrata Choudhury.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Delhi, India :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxi, 271 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

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Papers presented at the International Conference on 'Religion, Violence, Language', jointly sponsored by ICPR and IIAS held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study during 9-11 April, 2012.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part I -- 1. On Violence: Mimesis, Death Instinct, and Alterity / Gerard Bensussan -- 2. Experience of Silence: Derrida and the Language of Negative Theology / Andrea Potesta -- 3. Stupidity, Madness, and Malevolence: Schelling, Deleuze, Flaubert, and Musil and the Problem of Violence / Jason M. Wirth -- 4. 'No Eye has Seen it': The Renewal of the Human Condition in Marx and Levinas / Aicha Liviana Messina -- 5. Necessity for Clean Air and Space is Stronger than Any Kind of Hatred: An Essay on the Concept of Violence and Religion in Walter Benjamin / Maria Joao Cantinho -- 6. Tears Are Not Yet Wiped Away on All Faces / Saitya Brata Das -- 7. Concrete Violence of History and the Apocalyptic Messianic Dwarf / Mike Grimshaw -- 8. Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse / John Frow -- 9. Capital Violence / Clayton Crockett -- 10. St. Paul, Gabriel Naude, Antonin Artaud: Three Violent and Delicate Exceptions to Law and Liturgy / Soumyabrata Choudhury -- Part II -- 11. Roots of Violence: Jiva, Life, and Other Things / Rustam Singh -- 12. Violence of/on Languages: The Political Topography of Linguistic Nationalism / Asha Sarangi -- 13. Violence of Linguistic Cosmopolitanism / Selma K. Sonntag -- 14. Carving Out a Region Beyond: Religious Violence in Partition Narratives / Prachi Gurjarpadhye -- 15. Conflict as a Site for Perpetuation of Traditional Values / Veena Sharma.

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The essays collected in this volume deal with one central theme: How do we now make sense of existence in a world that is constantly threatened by destruction of sense. The contributors, exploring answers to this complex problematique from different disciplinary perspectives maintain that the question concerning the sense of existence and its destruction is essentially tied up with the question of violence: violence as radical destruction of sense for and of existence. Responses to this question, however, can be as irreducible and singular as can they be varied and multiple. Taking up the religious and linguistic forms of violence as their main focus, these essays argue that the place of violence in our contemporary historical condition has accelerated to an ever immeasurable measure, and that this demands urgent responses from intellectuals and activists alike.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

Political violence, Congresses.

Sociolinguistics, Congresses.

Violence-- Philosophy, Congresses.

Violence-- Religious aspects, Congresses.

Violence, Congresses.

Political violence.

Sociolinguistics.

Violence-- Philosophy.

Violence-- Religious aspects.

Violence.

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Choudhury, Soumyabrata

Das, Saitya Brata

International Conference on 'Religion, Violence, Language'(2012 :, Indian Institute of Advanced Study)

Indian Council of Philosophical Research,sponsoring body.

Indian Institute of Advanced Study,sponsoring body.

Date of Transaction

20200824054316.0

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