2003112
9781403967428
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.Avelar, Idelber is the author of 'Letter Of Violence Essays On Narrative, Ethics, and Politics', published 2004 under ISBN 9781403967428 and ISBN 1403967423.
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