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Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Meaning of Violence

The book is called ontologies of violence, deconstruction, pacifism and displacement. I think most people think of a violence as something, you know, we can identify with our senses. But for me, violence is a category and a concept that's pretty far upstream from the examples we use to exemplify it. So that's where I'm at in the route that took me here.

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