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States of Violence: An Essay on the End of War (SB-The French List)
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ISBN
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9781906497187
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Publisher
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Seagull Books
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Subject
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Politics & Government
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Binding
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HARDCOVER
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Pages
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321
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Year
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2010
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According to political philosopher FrxE9;dxE9;ric Gros, traditional notions of war and peace are currently being replaced by ideas of intervention and security. But while we may be able to speak of an end to war, this does not imply an end to violence. On the contrary, Gros argues that what we are witnessing is a reconfiguration of our ideas of war, resulting in new forms of violencex2014;terrorist attacks, armed groups jockeying for territory, the use of precision missiles, and the dangerous belief that conflict can be undertaken without casualties.xA0;In States of Violence, Gros explains how war was once conducted to defend or increase the power of a city, an empire, or a state, but today conflict is directed at the very fragility of the individual and based upon a logic of unilateral destruction inflicted upon deprived civilian populations. While war was once rationalized as justified bloodshed, these new states of violence are instead centered on the spectacle of stark, publicized civilian suffering. By charting the history of the philosophy of conflict in Western discourse, Gros offers astimulating and timely critique of contemporary notions of war and terror.xA0;
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Author Biography
FrxE9;dxE9;ric Gros is a professor at the UniversitxE9; Paris XII. Krzysztof Fijalkowski is senior lecturer in Critical Studies at Norwich University College of the Arts. Michael Richardson is a writer and translator. Together, Fijalkowski and Richardson have translated Refusal of the Shadow, Surrealism against the Current, and Georges Bataille: an Intellectual Biography.
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