Acknowledgments ix

General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1

Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17

Phenomenology of Spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27

Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels 39

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy / Karl Heinrich Marx 62

Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon 78

Part II. The Other of Violence 101

Actors

Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi 110

The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler 127

The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X 143

Critics

Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci 158

Keywords; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Wiliams 180

Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 188

Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott 199

Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215

Familial

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego / Sigmund Freud 226

Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) / Linda Gordon 245

Battered Wives / Del Martin 255

Legal

The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence 262

Critique of Violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin 268

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine MacKimmon 286

Violence and the Word / Robert M. Cover 292

Human Rights and the New World Order / Chandra Muzaffar 314

Religious

Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard 334

Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) / James Cone 351

Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and Solidarity) / Sharon Welch 362

The Iliad, or the Poem of Force / Simone Weil 377

Part IV. The State of Violence 391

Leviathon / Thomas Hobbes 399

The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt 416

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 444

Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 472

Part V. The Representation of Violence 491

Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky 498

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing / Michael Tuaussig 503

Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma / Kristine Stiles 522

Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places / Osama Bin Laden; In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood / Roland Jacquard 539

Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis / Elliott Leyton 547

Copyright Acknowledgments 555

Index 559