War after Death : On Violence and Its Limits.
Title:
War after Death : On Violence and Its Limits.
Author:
Miller, Steven.
ISBN:
9780823256792
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (i.e., the death drive) -- 1. Statues Also Die -- 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man -- 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive -- 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho -- 5. The Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the War of Language against Itself -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessar.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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