盖勒特·斯图尔特(Garrett Stewart)是美国当代优秀的文学批评家之一，美国艺术与科学院(American Academyof Arts andSciences)院士。斯图尔特1967年毕业于南加利福尼亚大学，1971年在耶鲁大学获得博士学位，研究领域为英国文学。他的博士论文《狄更斯与想象实验》(Dickensand the JP：Trials ofImagination)经修改，由哈佛大学出版社于1974年出版。斯图尔特曾先后仟教于波士顿大学、加利福尼亚大学圣芭芭拉分校，目前是爱荷华大学英语系的教授。从1993年至今，斯图尔特在爱荷华大学教授小说、电影、文本理论等课程。除本书外，他的学术论著还有《阅读声音：文学与声文本》(ReadingVoices：Literature and the Phonotext)(1990)、《阅读之貌：书、画...(展开全部)

By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodolog...(展开全部)

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.--from The Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethnogra...(展开全部)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the wor...(展开全部)

On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the wor...(展开全部)

Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately i...(展开全部)