Ebook: Violence and civility : on the limits of political philosophy
Author: Balibar Étienne, Goshgarian G. M
- Tags: Political violence Philosophy War Marxist science Aggressiveness Violence Case studies PSYCHOLOGY Social Psychology
- Series: Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California Irvine
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
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