Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory

by Beatrice Hanssen

Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415223393
• ISBN13: 9780415223393
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"