Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Violence and Testimony: On Sacrificing Sacrifice 14
7. Monastic Violence 44
8. Characteristic Violencei or, The Physiognomy of Style 58
9. Wartime 80
10. The Camp as the Nomos of the Modern 106
11. Enlightenment and Paranomia 119
12. Cannibals All: The Grave Wit of Kant's Perpetual Peace 150
13. Otherwise than Self-Determination: The Mortal Freedom of Oedipus Asphaleos 162
14. The Victim's Tale: Memory and Forgetting in the Story of Violence 186
15. Eroticism, Colonialism, and Violence 201
16. Traumatic Awakenings 208
17. Habeas Corpus: The Law's Desire to Have the Body 223
18. On the Politics of Pure Means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault 236
19. Marx, Mourning, Messianicity 253
20. Violence, Identity, Self-Determination, and the Question of Justice: on Specters of Marx 271
21. One 2 Many Multiculturalisms 284
22. ... and pomegranates 326
23. Notes 347