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THE ETHICS OF VIOLENCE
Guest Editor: Renata Salecl
This issue examines the concept of violence. It argues that ethics are deeply imbued with violence, and explores the uncanny and ambiguous relations between them. The argument is that Kantian ethics are based on the violent split Kant makes between the physical (which includes the body) and spiritual worlds. This is why absolute ethical stances - for example that of Antigone, or of those who renounce their families in the name of a higher cause - are often perceived as 'inhuman'. Some contributors go on to draw the parallels between Kantian ethics and those of Sade, while others discuss the contextualisation of violence - the same act, body piercing, can be viewed as savage ritual or urban chic.
Contents and Contributors:
Étienne Balibar Violence, Ideality, and Cruelty
Henrietta Moore Anthropology and Initiation
Renata Salecl Cut in the Body: From Clitoridectomy to Body Art
Juliet Flower MacCannell Perversion in Public Places
Parveen Adams Cars and Scars
Alain Abelhauser Why Did I Eat Daddy?
Mladen Dolar Where Does Power Come From?
Slavoj Zizek Kant with (or against) Sade?
Alenka Zupanicic Lacan's Heroines: Antigone and Synge de Coufontaine
Cecilia Sjöholm The Atè of Antigone: Lacan, Heidegger and Sexual
Difference Jane Malmo Beheading the Dead: Rites of Habeas Corpus
in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Marinos Diamantides The Violence of Irresponsibility: Enigmas of
Medical Ethics
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