List of Illustrations
Foreword: An Obituary for the Liberal, by Jake Chapman
Preface: Encountering the Void
Part I: The Sacrifice
1. Humanity Bound
2. The Sacred Order of Politics
3. The Shame of Being Human
Part II: The Fall of Liberal Humanism
4. A Higher State of Killing
5. The Death of the Victim
6. A Sickness of Reason
Part III: Into the Void
7. Annihilation
8. The Transgressive Witness
9. Wounds of Love
Notes
Index
Brad Evans is professor of political violence and aesthetics at the University of Bath. His many books include Atrocity Exhibition: Life in the Age of Total Violence (2019) and Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (2015). He led a dedicated series on violence for The Stone, a forum for contemporary philosophers from the New York Times, and is the lead editor for the Histories of Violence section of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Jake Chapman is a British visual artist who works with his brother Dinos as the Chapman Brothers. In their provocative practice, the Chapman Brothers reappropriate work by figures from Goya to Hitler.