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War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits Hardback - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Steven Miller

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War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death.

Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessary than ever, but the fact remains that war and death is only part of the story--an essential but ultimately subordinate part. Beyond killing, there is no war without attacks upon the built environment, ecosystems, personal property, artworks, archives, and intangible traditions.

Destructive as it may be, such violence is difficult to classify because it does not pose a grave threat to human lives. Nonetheless, the book argues that destruction of the nonhuman or nonliving is a constitutive dimension of all violence--especially forms of extreme violence against the living such as torture and rape; and it examines how the language and practice of war are transformed when this dimension is taken into account.

Finally, War after Death offers a rethinking of psychoanalytic approaches to war and the theory of the death drive that underlies them.

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  • Title War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
  • Author Steven Miller
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Language Initiative
  • Publication date 2014-03-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780823256778 / 0823256774
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 179.7

About the author

Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He is the translator of Catherine Malabou's The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Fordham).
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