Exploring the Facets of Revenge.

Intro -- Exploring the Facets of Revenge -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Revenge in Philosophy -- Revenge as Wild Justice: A Research Note on Francis Bacon's 'Of Revenge' -- Resentment and Valuation in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche -- Imagine Less Resentment: An Outline of an Ethical Encounter between Nietzschean and Bataillean Thought Concerning Revenge and War -- PART II: Revenge in History -- Survival and Decline of the Right to Vengeance at the Turn of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in a City of the Low Countries (Namur, 14th-17th Centuries) -- A Right to Kill Traitors: Revenge and Racial Strife in the American Civil War West (1863-1865) -- Revenge towards Professional and Social Reasons: Gendarmeries Purges after WWII -- PART III Revenge in Society -- 'You Made Me What I Am. You Added to the Rage': School Shooters in the United States and the Cultural Script of Vengeance -- Revenge, the Volcano of Despair: The Story of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- The Domestication of Vengeance in Ancient Greece and South India -- Revenge at the Service of Social Justice: An Afrocentric View -- PART IV Revenge in Literature -- 'Blood Will Have Blood': Revenge and Injustice in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown -- Tender Toxicity: Desire and Revenge in Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout -- 'As I Have Been Made': Social Revenge in Dickens' Great Expectations -- The Snooper and the Scribbler: Literary Revenge in Poe's Dupin Trilogy.

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