The Letter of Violence Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
, by Avelar, IdelberNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781403967428 | 1403967423
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/15/2005
This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.