Issue Sixteen

December 2008

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Front

Contents

Editorial

Critique of Violence Articles

Introduction: Violence and Critique
Carlo Salzani and Michael FitzGerald

Violence as Pure Praxis: Benjamin and Sorel on Strike, Myth and Ethics
Carlo Salzani

Prior to Law and Subsequent to Understanding: Benjamin as a Student of the Law
Stephanie Polsky

The Creature Before the Law: Notes on Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence
Mathew Abbott

Potentiality and Reconciliation: a Consideration of Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” and Adorno’s “Progress”
Tim Finney

Between Violence and Law, Is There a Place for Justice?
Adam Lodders

The Ethics of Interpretation; Toward Critique Without Judgment
Lara Shalson

Interfaith Dialogue: A Deconstructive Site for the Cycles of Mythic Violence?
Elyse Rider

General Articles

“A Dark and Hidden Thing”: Evelyn Waugh, Cannibalism, and the Problem of African Christianity
Timothy M. Christensen

Kant on the Beautiful: The Interest in Disinterestedness
Paul Daniels

“We Grew Here You Flew Here”: Claims to “Home” in the Cronulla Riots
Clemence Due and Damien W. Riggs

Magical Allegory in Marie Darrieussecq’s novel Pig Tales (1996): Piggy Debauchery in Postcolonial France
Sallie Muirden

Translation

Four Japanese Poems for Peace
Sue Stanford

Book Reviews

Christopher Clark. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Fall of Prussia 1600-1947. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
David Blencowe

Steven Crowell and Jeff Malpas eds. Transcendental Heidegger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Rachel Funari

Paul Gillen and Devleena Ghosh. Colonialism and Modernity. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007.
Ann McCarthy

Chris Healy. Forgetting Aborigines. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2008.
Diane Molloy

Mark Tredinnick. The Little Green Grammar Book. Sydney: UNSW, 2008.
Geoff Berry