The Force of Nonviolence
An Ethico-Political Bind
by Judith Butler

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Author(s)

Judith Butler

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 2021

Scope

214 Pages, 19 cm.

ISBN

9781788732772

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Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem 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. With postscript: Rethinking Vulnerability, Violence, Resistance.

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Keywords

critical aesthetics , justice

Location

Cabinet 30 - 3: Kunst en Rechtspraak

Remarks

Includes notes, index