On Violence

An interdisciplinary collection of primary texts on the subject of violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden. The editors' introductions frame the texts within questions of how violence is generated and perpetuated in so

Acknowledgments ix

General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1

Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17

Phenomenology of Spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27

Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels 39

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy / Karl Heinrich Marx 62

Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon 78

Part II. The Other of Violence 101

Actors

Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi 110

The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler 127

The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X 143

Critics

Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci 158

Keywords; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Wiliams 180

Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 188

Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott 199

Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215

Familial

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego / Sigmund Freud 226

Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) / Linda Gordon 245

Battered Wives / Del Martin 255

Legal

The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence 262

Critique of Violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin 268

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine MacKimmon 286

Violence and the Word / Robert M. Cover 292

Human Rights and the New World Order / Chandra Muzaffar 314

Religious

Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard 334

Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) / James Cone 351

Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity) / Sharon Welch 362

The Iliad, or the Poem of Force / Simone Weil 377

Part IV. The State of Violence 391

Leviathon / Thomas Hobbes 399

The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt 416

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 444

Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 472

Part V. The Representation of Violence 491

Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky 498

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing / Michael Tuaussig 503

Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma / Kristine Stiles 522

Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places / Osama Bin Laden; In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood / Roland Jacquard 539

Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis / Elliott Leyton 547

Copyright Acknowledgments 555

Index 559