Bruce B. Lawrence / Aisha Karim

Gebundenes Buch

On Violence

A Reader

Herausgeber: Lawrence, Bruce B; Karim, Aisha

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of The Qur’an: A Biography; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. He is the editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden and Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip-Hop (with miriam cooke). Aisha Karim is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University. She is a coeditor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 150mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337560
• ISBN-10: 0822337568
• Artikelnr.: 22893179