... of Jean Calvin and William Tyndale dictate. Spenser exposes the consequences of excising an active sense of the vulnerable body as Una embodies an alliance between beauty and iconoclastic violence and Redcrosse dramatizes the replacement of integrative suffering with pain as punishment for or heroic...

...This chapter describes how Weil overturns all of Arendt's affirmations by uncovering the double foundation of violence and deceit that underlies the Latin framework upon which Arendt's assertions rest. This is certainly the case of the Roman principle of auctoritas-augmentum, which...

...This chapter describes the planning, organization, and key events during the “Beyond Violence” international conference held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from May 5–7, 2003. The conference brought together both scholars and religious activists. All the religious activists...

...This chapter presents a paper given at the international conference titled “Beyond Violence: Religious Sources for Social Transformation.” The paper highlights a long-felt need for the children of Adam and Eve and the spiritual offspring of Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, Isa, and Muhammad to recognize...

...This chapter presents a paper given at the international conference titled “Beyond Violence: Religious Sources for Social Transformation.” The paper focuses on how Judaism can contribute toward ending violence and murder in the name of religion. It addresses questions such as: What tendencies does...

...This chapter presents a paper given at the international conference titled “Beyond Violence: Religious Sources for Social Transformation.” The paper argues that since the end of World War II, momentum has been developing, within both Christian theology and praxis, toward nonviolent peacebuilding...

... and consequences of neoliberalism; such resistance, Song successively maintains, demands a different relationship and reaction to various forms of systemic violence. ethics capitalism complicity globalization neoliberal and neoliberalism civility and collegiality diversity wealth discrimination model...

... the difficulty of finding a precise dividing line between “violence” and “noviolence” as well as the facts of usage. It also discusses the two most important justifications of civil disobedience: the Higher Law doctrine and some version of natural or human rights. Finally, it considers Abe Fortas's justification...

... Williams Barbara Erving Tyrhonda “in the life ” Beloved Morrison Melville Herman Morrison Toni slavery value s citizenship class Drylongso Gwaltney Gwaltney John Langston Jones Harriet drug addiction Harney Stefano Moten Fred sexuality violence Barrett Lindon Blackness and Value Barrett...

...Based on interactions with sexual assault victims in Baltimore this chapter explores the work of violence in renegotiating kin relations. Literature on sexual assault largely characterizes the sexual assault victim as inevitably alienated from her kinship and care network. In this framework...

...This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, an issue mostly neglected by critical bible scholars of all disciplines. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination, and deciphers...

... Zanzotto Andrea Beautiful Antonio Brancati De Ruggiero Guido Hope Christianity and Communism Moravia Man as An End Moravia Kundera Milan creaturely life Fascism narratives of redemption national defeat political violence postwar Italy totalitarianism One March day the following was found...

... by pinpointing the “necessary violence” revolutionary practices have historically embraced. Asor Rosa Alberto Mussolini Benito totalitarianism Alatri Paolo anti Semitism Ben Ghiat Ruth civil war Fascism aesthetics of Focardi Filippo racial campaigns Arendt Hannah Croce Benedetto “Fascist Germ Still...

... by historical technologies of knowledge. We easily lose sight of the epistemic violence of these projects, whether the violence of extracting an exhaustive order from the world or the violence of enforcing a single, naturalized order of things. categorization genocide genos genus Lemkin Raphael order...

... of genos and violence, 3) confronting the democratic deficits that make belonging to the demos an inadequate replacement for genos life, 4) acknowledging the violent founding of our existing democracies, and 5) learning to see the genocidal reach of familiar...

...Scholars have long been fascinated by the link between violence, martial manhood, and state formation in the nineteenth century, but largely absent from their analysis is the emotional component of the newly reconstituted nation-states, what might be termed their spiritual sovereignty; the crucial...

... with violence aestheticization death ethical acts Kant Immanuel moral acts pathological motives second death suffering ethical acts leading to Antigone Sophocles Seminar XI Lacan surplus life enjoyment impossible statements unconscious the “Unconscious and Repetition The” Lacan primal repression...

... the streets of Roxbury. The ritual emerged in the 1970s or ’80s as both an act of piety and an ecumenical, popular-liturgical protest against local gang violence. Winding through the streets of Egleston Square, the stations of the cross are places—street corners, storefronts, apartment stoops—marking...

... dominant mode. In a world in which right-wing strong men (starting with Donald Trump himself) are openly enjoying power and propagating sexual violence and in which respectability regularly is undone by exposed secrets, melodrama is the dominant mode. The contemporary social narrative takes the form...

.... Gandhi loss non-violence philology relinquishment renunciation In 1943, one day before his twentieth birthday, John McAleer woke up early to write M. K. Gandhi a letter. “My own world being not so very great & yours having so thoroughly an intrinsic part in it,” McAleer wrote, it was only...