Images of violence get pleasure from a specific privilege in modern continental philosophy, one show up within the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of one of those rhetorical funding in violence as a motif. Such pictures have additionally expert, restricted, and inspired contemporary continental feminist thought. In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann V. Murphy takes word of wide-ranging references to the subjects of violence and vulnerability in modern idea. She considers the moral and political implications of this language of violence with the purpose of showing alternative routes during which identification and the social bond could be imagined, and encourages a few severe distance from the photographs of violence that pervade philosophical critique.

“…a concise and insightful exploration of the motif of violence inside 20th- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy … Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary is a necessary addition to fresh rereadings of Beauvoir’s oeuvre, in particular her moral interval writings … a accurately written and critical publication for an individual attracted to feminist ethics, violence, or modern continental philosophy.” — Hypatia

“In brief, Murphy’s interesting ebook returns our awareness to the paradox of our precarious lives and the overflowing imaginaries that animate them; we circulation from descriptive to prescriptive claims in simple terms via workout serious restraint, such that we would do justice to our lived complexity.” — APA Newsletter

“Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary makes a special and memorable contribution to modern discussions of violence. what's distinctive concerning the strategy of the publication is that, from a place squarely at the facet of nonviolence, Ann Murphy embarks on a severe research of opinions of violence. this is often as courageous because it is necessary.” — Rosalyn Diprose, writer of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas

Ann V. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.