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Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture. Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture,...
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The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation. Today, this figure appears less and less capable of galvanizing the political imagination. But, without it, how are we to respond to the inhumane violence that overwhelms our political and philosophical registers? How can we make sense of the violence...
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