The Culture of Violence: Essays in Tragedy and History - Francis Barker - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226037189 - October 1, 1993
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Francis Barker
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'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view.

Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power.

The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.

270 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 1, 1993
ISBN13 9780226037189
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 270
Dimensions 154 × 278 × 19 mm   ·   424 g
Language English  

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