Ontologies of Violence
Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement
Series: - Political and Public Theologies, Volume: 4
Ontologies of Violence provides a new paradigm for understanding the concept of violence through comparative interpretations of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, philosophical theologians in the Mennonite pacifist tradition, and Grace M. Jantzen’s feminist philosophy of religion. By drawing out and challenging the remarkably similar priorities shared by its three sources, and by challenging the assumption that differences necessarily lead to displacement, Ontologies of Violence provides a critical theory of violence by treating it as a diagnostic concept that implies the violation of value-laden boundaries.
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Maxwell Kennel, Ph.D. (2021), McMaster University, is a Research Associate in the Centre for Social Accountability at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. He is the author of Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
The book is relevant to scholars and graduate students interested in ontologies and epistemologies of violence within and beyond French philosophy and deconstruction, philosophical theologies in the Mennonite pacifist tradition, and Grace Jantzen’s feminist philosophy of religion.