The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
Idelber Avelar - The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
Published: 2004-12-23 | ISBN: 1403967423, 1403967415 | PDF | 208 pages | 3 MB
This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.