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Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence Hardcover - 2008
by Adriana Cavarero; William McCuaig (Translator)
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- Title Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence
- Author Adriana Cavarero; William McCuaig (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2008-11
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231144568 / 0231144563
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Terrorism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008026511
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.6
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- Choice, 07/01/2009, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/16/2009, Page 14
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Hardback. New. Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to capture the experience of violence. Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the Iliad, in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of Medea's children. In the…
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