Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has just published a generous review of book Naming Violence (2018).
Here is an excerpt from the insightful text:
“In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler presents a compelling and novel framework to further understand the interdependence between language and our collective conceptualization of political violence. Thaler’s primary intervention is that the imagination is a potent albeit overlooked tool to assess, interpret, and mitigate violence. He convincingly supports the call to center imaginative processes in political theory through a series of creative and instructive case studies on genocide and storytelling, torture and hypotheticals, and terrorism and genealogy.”