Trial of Hatred

Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in French and German philosophy and in contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has translated works by philosophers including Nietzsche, Franz Rosenzweig and Leibniz. Marc Crépon was the co-founder, along with Bernard Stiegler, of the association Ars Industrialis.He has travelled and lectured at American universities, including University of California, Irvine and Rice University. He also taught classes while in residence at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2006 and 2008.He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books in English are The Thought of Death and the Memory of War (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018) and Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death (Fordham University Press, 2019).D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University. He is co-translator of Marc Crépon's The Trial of Hatred (EUP, 2021) and The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence (SUNY, 2018). He is editor of Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion by Catherine Malabou.

Crépon’s The Trial of Hatred is an extremely timely book that asks how it is possible to continue to support peace, to be on the side of non-violence, in the face of widespread violence, in short, how it is possible to face and survive the trial of hatred in times of conflict and war.

• Preface: From Murderous Consent to the Trial of Hatred in the Vocation of WritingPart I: The Experience of ViolenceIntimacyCountering ViolenceLevees that BreakBroken ConfidenceHatred and ViolenceTerrorCritique of IdentityThe Call for CritiqueLimits and Contradictions of PoliticsThe Voice of ConscienceNecessity and Conditions of EthicsPart II: Vanquishing Hatred: Jaurès, Rolland, Gandhi, King, MandelaThe Fatherland, a Murderous Idol?Of HatredNonviolence and RevolutionThe ‘Snares of Identity’Exiting ApartheidOn the Memory of a GenocideConclusion: Responding to Hatred and ViolenceNotes