ISBN:
9780231527187
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 212 pages)
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Series Statement:
The Wellek Library Lectures
Uniform Title:
Violence et civilité
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Balibar, Étienne, 1942 - Violence and civility
DDC:
302.54
Keywords:
Political violence - Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Politische Philosophie
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Gewalt
Abstract:
In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Using the pathbreaking thought of Derrida as a starting point, Balibar designs a topography of cruelty converted into extremism by ideology, juxtaposing its subjective forms (identity delusions, the desire for exter
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Violence and Politics: Questions; 1. From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility; 2. Hegel, Hobbes, and the "Conversion of Violence"; 3. "Inconvertible" Violence? An Essay in Topography; 4. Strategies of Civility; Après-Coup: The Limits of Political Anthropology; Appendix; Notes; Index
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