Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

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Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Violence. Reflexivity, Critique
Thinking in Images	p. 11
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary	p. 12
Feminism and the Motif of Violence	p. 19
Genealogy and Violence	p. 23
Philosophy's Shame	p. 27
Shame and the Philosophical Imaginary	p. 29
Philosophy and Its Others	p. 33
Shame and the Discourse on Difference	p. 37
Violence, Visibility, and Identity Politics	p. 45
Philosophy, Identity, and Violence	p. 46
The Defense of Identity Politics	p. 51
The Visible and the Real	p. 55
Sexuality and Spectacle	p. 57
Vulnerability. Ambiguity. Responsibility
The Provocations of Vulnerability	p. 65
Feminist Philosophy and the Vulnerable Body	p. 66
Ethical Ambiguity and Corporeal Vulnerability	p. 72
A Phenomenology of Touch	p. 75
Framing Violence and Vulnerability	p. 79
What's in a Name? Imagining Vulnerability Otherwise	p. 85
Uniqueness and the Human	p. 88
Ontological Virtue	p. 89
Ontological Vice	p. 94
An Ethics of the Singular	p. 98
Assuming Ambiguity: The Body and Ethical Life	p. 101
Ambiguity in Beauvoir's Early Work	p. 103
Vulnerability Revisited	p. 108
Assuming Ambiguity	p. 112
Freedom and Violence	p. 114
Conclusion: Witnessing the Imaginary	p. 117
Notes	p. 121
References	p. 127
Index	p. 133
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