Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particul

Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England. It does so by focusing upon five important legal cases, all of which were bindi

Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonv

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Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution,