.... If one says and does nothing, one consents. But is it possible to speak and act against injustice and the many forms that violence takes without violence? This is the paradox that haunts the thought of Albert Camus. The chapter then reveals the importance of the question of whether murder can...

...This chapter documents and analyzes the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, an event preceded by but not unrelated to the assassination of Pim Fortuyn, the deaths of whom have haunted Dutch politics ever since. It sketches the historical and socio-cultural context against whose foil we...

... original and its Greek translation employ verbs which imply that the stricture is against murder. Thus the concept of “killing” itself may be contested. Jesus Christ of Nazareth Decalogue killing language of Bible murder We have claimed here that “You shall not kill” is the sixth commandment...

...Here Cavarero reflects on “Crime and Punishment,” a 2010 exhibition at the D’Orsay Museum, which focuses largely on homicide as murder, deflecting any consideration of mass homicide such as war or state violence such as capital punishment as possibly criminal acts. She invokes the third-century...

...This chapter presents the reprinting of a classic piece—Richard Nelson Current's justly famous essay on Lincoln as the victim of both murder and mythology. It was originally published more than half a century ago in Current's memorable book The Lincoln Nobody Knows. The essay is included...

... of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, this book offers the latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder...

... Marc United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Faurisson Robert trauma Wolff Metternich Paul Danzikyan Yetvart Armenian genocide counter-memory haunting hauntology Hrant Dink murder trial Raphael Lemkin law positing and law preserving violence Ottoman Special...

..., and then narrows its focus to those who perceived themselves as victims of forces beyond their control, and to those who participated in acts of brutality and mass murder but still appeared and acted as ordinary people. Anus Mundi Holocaust Kingdom perpetrators chronological presentation of Holocaust events...

..., and potential death. If her premonition provides a true glimpse of her future, then she will join the ranks of Armand's dead models, murdered for his art. The author makes a case not only that a sizable body of such fiction was produced and widely circulated between roughly 1850 and 1930, but also...

...This chapter discusses the case of eight black women who were the victims of a serial murderer between July 2003 and October 2004 in Peoria, Illinois. It begins with an analysis of the Don Imus incident of 2007, in which the “shock jock” referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy...

...Oedipus Rex is about the question of the stranger's name and the nomos (law) of hospitality. Sophocles makes the plague the incentive moment of his play. Oedipus's fatal encounter with his father at the crossroads outside Thebes signifies that every murder is potentially...

... together in Wilde's foray into “the egoistic note” he associates with modern art. The discussion of hospitality in De Quincey touched briefly on violence, and more especially, murder as an underside of hospitality in both its forms. In this chapter, murder and violence—what Derrida calls in a book...

...In some murder mysteries, the amateur sleuth created by Camilla T. Crespi is Simona Griffo. She wears no fedora, nor does she talk out of the corner of her mouth. She is a transplanted Italian employed by a small New York advertising agency. From the first volume, Simona's Italian identity is built...

... as the connections he then makes between patricide, imperialism, and monotheism. Freud’s insistence that the Jewish people not only murdered Moses, but also added a symbolic double murder with the archival erasure of his Egyptian origins, is informed by Freud’s intense personal transference at a time when he felt...

... of the Jewish stench (foetor Judaicus), of representations of Jewish food preferences and prohibitions, of ascriptions of Jewish misanthropy due to their apparent lack of commensality, of accusations of Jewish ritual blood consumption and ritual murder in contemporary press and scholarship, as well...

... the singularity and inviolability of each and every human life. But what does this imply for the lives that have been destroyed by murder, or for the trauma of survivors? And what role does the death drive play in both the desire for abolition and the horror of murder? It considers the three main arguments...

... Murder Trial, and the 2015 case before the European Court of Human Rights concerning the denial of the Armenian genocide....

...A leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill. The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just war and drone strikes, from bioethics...