Evans Ecce Humanitas

Beholding the Pain of Humanity
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54558-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Through a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Brad

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chapman, Jake

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword: An Obituary for the Liberal, by Jake Chapman
Preface: Encountering the Void
Part I: The Sacrifice
1. Humanity Bound
2. The Sacred Order of Politics
3. The Shame of Being Human
Part II: The Fall of Liberal Humanism
4. A Higher State of Killing
5. The Death of the Victim
6. A Sickness of Reason
Part III: Into the Void
7. Annihilation
8. The Transgressive Witness
9. Wounds of Love
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brad Evans is professor of political violence and aesthetics at the University of Bath. His many books include Atrocity Exhibition: Life in the Age of Total Violence (2019) and Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (2015). He led a dedicated series on violence for The Stone, a forum for contemporary philosophers from the New York Times, and is the lead editor for the Histories of Violence section of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jake Chapman is a British visual artist who works with his brother Dinos as the Chapman Brothers. In their provocative practice, the Chapman Brothers reappropriate work by figures from Goya to Hitler.