The Trial of Hatred: An Essay on the Refusal of Violence

In this urgently needed book, Marc Crépon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crépon makes a compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times. With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crépon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today.

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 Research Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of a number of journal articles including in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Philosophy Today, Derrida Today and The New Centennial Review. He is co-translator of The Trial of Hatred: An Essay on the Refusal of Violence by Marc Crépon (EUP, 2021) and The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence by Marc Crépon (SUNY, 2018).

Tyler Williams is Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Midwestern State University.