| Edition |
First Picador edition. |
| Description |
vi, 262 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Big ideas/small books
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| Note |
"A Picador paperback original"--Cover. |
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-239) and index. |
| Contents |
The tyrant's bloody robe -- 1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: SOS violence -- Violence: subjective and objective -- The good men from Porto Davos -- A liberal-Communist village -- Sexuality in the atonal world -- 2: Allego moderato--adagio: Fear thy neighbour as theyself! -- The politics of fear -- The neighbour thing -- The violence of language -- 3: Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: "A blood-dimmed tide is loosed" -- A strange case of phatic communication -- Terrorist resentment -- The subject supposed to loot and rape -- 4: Presto: Antinomies of tolerant reason -- Liberalism or fundamentalism? A plague on both their houses! -- The Jerusalem chalk circle -- The anonymouse religion of Atheism -- 5: Molto adagio--andante: Tolerance as an ideological category -- The cultrualisation of politics -- The effective universality -- Acheronta movebo: the infernal regions -- 6: Allegro: Divine violence -- Benjamin with Hitchcock -- Divine violence: what it is not ... -- ... and finally, what it is! |
| Subject |
Violence.
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Violence -- Philosophy.
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Political violence.
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| Added Title |
Six sideways reflections |
| ISBN |
9780312427184 paperback |
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0312427182 paperback |
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