Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard
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Christ as image
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Georges Bataille
Giorgio Agamben
image
power
Ren? Giraud
Rene Giraud
sacred
victim
Violence
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- ISBN 9781399519786
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What is violence what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille, Agamben and Girard thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the image, a connection that shows what it means to be a victim.?
Separate chapters are devoted to the study of violence and the image as these appear in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard.?
The book concludes that no study of violence and the image can avoid engaging with the issue of the injustice of being a victim.
John Lechte is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is best know for his writing on French philosophers, Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille and for his best selling Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 2006). He is co-editor of Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence (EUP, 2015) and The Kristeva Critical Reader (EUP, 2003). His most recent book is The Human (Bloomsbury, 2020).
