Violence as metaphor

Vasti Roodt

3-26

Violence and essentialism?

Lode Lauwaert

27-37

The temporality of violence

destruction, dissolution and the construction of sense

Felix Ó Murchadha

41-58

Reflections on the meanings of religious violence

a phenomenological exploration

Michael Staudigl

59-90

The violence of the singular

Arthur Cools

91-109

Is violence inescapable?

Derrida, religion, and the irreducibility of violence

Jason Alvis

111-133

The double meanings of violence

catharsis and mimesis

Nidesh Lawtoo

137-165

The last second, or eternity

Ernst Jünger looking at photographs of the First World War

Stéphane Symons, Tammy Castelein

167-188

Torturous violence

a phenomenological approach to the violence in the acts of torture

Jeremy Heuslein

191-215

Oppressed by shame

from Auschwitz to a politics of revolt

Debra Bergoffen

217-238

Forming the individual

castoriadis and lacan on the socio-symbolic function of violence

Gavin Rae

239-265