- Bib ID:
- 10007738
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lechte, John, author
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
- ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781399519779 ((hardcover))
- 1399519778 ((hardcover))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781399519809 ((electronic publication))
- 9781399519793 ((electronic book))
- Summary:
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"Bataille, Agamben and Girard are thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the image, a connection that shows what it means to be a victim. Separate chapters are devoted to the study of violence and the image as these appear in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard. The book concludes that no study of violence and the image can avoid engaging with the issue of the injustice of being a victim"--
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Victim and violence : Bataille versus Nietzsche
- Bataille: image and victim
- Rethinking Agamben on Violence
- Rethinking Agamben on image
- Girard on violence and the victim
- Image, violence, victim and the Crucifixion : Girard's version
- Conclusion : Understanding violence, image and victim.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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