Psychohistory, aesthetics and ethics of political violence in Colombia: A reading from Edgar Barrero Cuéllar

This book offers a psychohistorical reading of political violence in Colombia that articulates three axes -psychohistory, aesthetics and ethics- to explain how practices of cruelty are produced, represented and justified, and how it is possible to oppose them through active memory. Based on the categories and narratives worked by Edgar Barrero Cuellar (aesthetics of the atrocious, ethics of cruelty, social sensitivity to harm), the work reconstructs scenes, languages and affections that have normalized violence and proposes keys to denaturalize them: analysis of discourses and images, reading of testimonies and applied ethical reflection. With an approach that crosses social psychology, history and moral philosophy, it offers conceptual and didactic tools for research, teaching and psychosocial intervention, aimed at promoting ethical resistance, pedagogies of memory and care for victims; it derives from a monograph revised and expanded by its authors.