Marc Crepon

Gebundenes Buch

The Trial of Hatred

An Essay on the Refusal of Violence

Übersetzer: Cross, D J S; Williams, Tyler M

Beschreibung

With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today.

Autor

Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in French and German philosophy and in contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has translated works by philosophers including Nietzsche, Franz Rosenzweig and Leibniz. Marc Crépon was the co-founder, along with Bernard Stiegler, of the association Ars Industrialis. He has travelled and lectured at American universities, including University of California, Irvine and Rice University. He also taught classes while in residence at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2006 and 2008. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books in English are The Thought of Death and the Memory of War (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018) and Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death (Fordham University Press, 2019).

Produktdetails

• Incitements
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781474480253
• ISBN-10: 147448025X
• Artikelnr.: 60977686