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020			_a9781788732772
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100			_aButler, Judith
245			_aThe force of nonviolence : an ethico-political bind
260			_bVerso, _c2021 _aLondon :
300			_ax, 209 P. ; _c20 cm
365			_b9.99 _c£ _d113.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aJudith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a way of checking the conversion of aggression into violence. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilized in the service of ratifying the state's monopoly on violence. Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how "racial phantasms" inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects.
650			_aIndividualism
650			_aNon violence
650			_aAspect moral
650			_aGrievability
650			_aWar
650			_aDestruction
650			_aMania
650			_aCritical Faculty
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