The Trial of Hatred: An Essay on the Refusal of Violence (Incitements) - Softcover

Crepon, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474480268 ISBN 13: 9781474480260

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crepon makes a compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times.With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today.

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About the Author

Marc Crepon, Professor of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. D. J. S. Cross, Research Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo. Tyler Williams, Assistant Professor of the Humanities., Midwestern State University.

From the Back Cover

Considers the ordeal of hatred and our relation to violence In this urgently needed book, Marc Crépon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crépon makes a compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times. With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crépon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today. Marc Crépon is Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is the author of Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death, The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence and The Thought of Death and the Memory of War. D. J. S. Cross is Research Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of Buffalo. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Midwestern State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474480268
• ISBN 13: 9781474480260
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288