The archaeology of war : the history of violence between the 20th and 21st centuries / Christian Wevelsiep.

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Introduction: Understanding the Violence
1. A Form of Critical Philosophy of History
2. Critical Reflection: Domination and Violence
3. Dark Spots in History
4. Reflection of Violence
PART I Violence and History
Chapter One War as 'Becoming': On the Ontology of Conflict
1. History of Power
2. History in the Space
3. The Power of Geography
4. Space as an Aesthetic and Cultural Dimension
5. Violence and Order
6. The Sense and Sensibility of Violence
7. Between Nature and Culture
Chapter Two The Embodiment of the Victim: Phenomenology of Violence Suffered
PART II Dark Spots in History
The Phatic Function of Cultural Memory
Understanding the Century
Orientation between the Centuries
Chapter Three Colonial Violence: The Dark Sides of the Modern State
1. Remembrance of Colonial Violence in 'German Southwest Africa'
2. Violence in the Shadows: The Armenian Genocide
3. The Colonial Gaze: Reflections on Cultural Psychology
Chapter Four Hate: On the enigma of divisiveness in the age of the total
1. The Existence of the Hate
2. The Motif of Refusal
3. Understanding the Ordinary and the Extraordinary
4. Violence and Meaning
Chapter Five Disastrous Violence: Ideologies
1. The Terrible Banality
2. The Reality of Evil
3. Ideologies and Doctrines
4. The War as a Noumenon
5. The Motive of Enmity
6. The Peculiar Emptiness of Morality
Chapter Six Politics, Violence and Sacrality
1. Religious Dark Spots
2. What Remains? On the Sacral Dimension of the Present
Chapter Seven The frightening love of war
1. Violence and Philosophy
2. The War as a Teacher
3. Aporias of Violence
4. The Meaning of War
5. Under the Sign of Non-violence.

Part III Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century: The Worldview of Concern
Chapter Eight The Valorative Space in Times of War
1. Modernity and Violence
2. Understanding the Violence
3. Philosophy of History in the Face of Violence
Chapter Nine What Does 'Learning from History' Mean? On the Implicit Pedagogy of History
Introduction
1. Philosophy of History after the Illusion of Feasibility
2. The Power of Narration
3. Dialogical Culture of History
4. The Implicit Understanding of Hermeneutics
Chapter Ten War Again? The Contribution of Philosophy to the Phenomenon of War
Introduction
1. The Preference of the Own
2. Violence and Order
3. The Challenge of Enmity
Chapter Eleven From the Worldview of War to the Worldview of Concern
1. Politics and Life
2. The Logic of Worldviews
3. The Worldview of War
4. The Worldview of Concern
5. Philosophy and History
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Index.