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Author:   Saitya Brata Das (Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature, and Culture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) ,  Soumyabrata Choudhury (Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
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9780199453726

ISBN 10:   0199453721
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Weight of Violence PART I 1: Gerard Bensussan: On Violence: Mimesis, Death Instinct, and Alterity 2: Andrea Potesta: The Experience of Silence: Derrida and the Language of Negative Theology 3: Jason Wirth: Stupidity, Madness, and Malevolence: Schelling, Deleuze, Flaubert, and Musil and the Problem of Violence 4: Aicha Liviana Messina: 'No Eye has Seen it': The Renewal of the Human Condition in Marx and Levinas 5: Maria Joao Cantinho: The Necessity for Clean Air and Space is Stronger Than Any Kinds of Hatred: An Essay on the Concept of Violence in Walter Benjamin 6: Saitya Brata Das: Tears Are Not Yet Wiped Away on All Faces 7: Mike Grimshaw: The Concrete Violence of History and the Apocalyptic Messianic Dwarf 8: John Frow: Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse 9: Clayton Crockett: Capital Violence 10: Soumyabrata Choudhury: St. Paul, Gabriel Naude, Antonin Artaud : Three Violent and Delicate Exceptions to Law and Liturgy PART II 11: Rustam Singh: Roots of Violence: Jiva, Life, and Other Things 12: Asha Sarangi: Violence of/on Languages: The Political Topography of Linguistic Nationalism in South Asia 13: Selma Sonntag: The Violence of Linguistic Cosmopolitanism 14: Prachi Gurjarpadhye Khandeparker: Carrying out a Region Beyond: Religious Violence in Partition Narratives 15: Veena Sharma: Conflict a Site for Perpetuation of Traditional Values Index About the Editors and Contributors

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Saitya Brata Das is Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Soumyabrata Choudhury, is Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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