The Outlaw Series: Explorations in Ontological Violence - Paperback

by Ethan Claunch (Illustrator), Kevin Boileau (Author)

In this psychological novella, which is seemingly a concatenation of short stories, Kevin Boileau explores the topic of ontological violence. This is an attitude toward the ruptures we experience as human beings, both by choice and by the hand of others; yet, the attitude is aggressive, a choice of being in the face of change as project forward to our physical deaths. It is in the condition of existential uncertainty that we are most called upon to take responsibility for our new choices, and it these choices that Boileau carefully examines. Ontological violence is viewed, thus, as an aperture in the interstitial corridor between the past and the future as counter-memory.

Author Biography

Kevin Bolieau is Professor of Philosophy & Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Global Advanced Studies, Director of the BCS Dispute Resolution Research Institute, and Prof. of Psychoanalysis & Phenomenology at The Existential Psychoanalytic institute & Society. He writes and teaches both theory and literary fiction in psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and phenomenology.