Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University.

“Diane Enns’s book The Violence of Victimhood will be read with admiration and a passionate interest by anyone who confronts the moral, philosophical, and political dilemmas of extreme violence in contemporary society: scholars, activists, citizens. Instead of simply naming the ambivalence of the category of victimhood, she wants to understand it in all its determinations, moral and historical. She confronts with great rigor an impressive corpus of interpretations, past and present, Western and postcolonial. She delineates a politics of life with no concession to wishful thinking. A most necessary, most timely book.”—Etienne Balibar, University of California, Irvine

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Good Other2When Victims Become Killers3Indelible Wounds4Arendt in Jerusalem5To Kill or Be Killed6Mercy for the Merciless7Lay Down Your ArmsNotesBibliographyIndex

Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University.

“Diane Enns’s book The Violence of Victimhood will be read with admiration and a passionate interest by anyone who confronts the moral, philosophical, and political dilemmas of extreme violence in contemporary society: scholars, activists, citizens. Instead of simply naming the ambivalence of the category of victimhood, she wants to understand it in all its determinations, moral and historical. She confronts with great rigor an impressive corpus of interpretations, past and present, Western and postcolonial. She delineates a politics of life with no concession to wishful thinking. A most necessary, most timely book.”—Etienne Balibar, University of California, Irvine

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Good Other2When Victims Become Killers3Indelible Wounds4Arendt in Jerusalem5To Kill or Be Killed6Mercy for the Merciless7Lay Down Your ArmsNotesBibliographyIndex

Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University.

“Diane Enns’s book The Violence of Victimhood will be read with admiration and a passionate interest by anyone who confronts the moral, philosophical, and political dilemmas of extreme violence in contemporary society: scholars, activists, citizens. Instead of simply naming the ambivalence of the category of victimhood, she wants to understand it in all its determinations, moral and historical. She confronts with great rigor an impressive corpus of interpretations, past and present, Western and postcolonial. She delineates a politics of life with no concession to wishful thinking. A most necessary, most timely book.”—Etienne Balibar, University of California, Irvine

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Good Other2When Victims Become Killers3Indelible Wounds4Arendt in Jerusalem5To Kill or Be Killed6Mercy for the Merciless7Lay Down Your ArmsNotesBibliographyIndex