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Informationen zum Autor Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the leading Derrida scholars in the United States today and has written numerous books that deal, either in whole or in part, with the implications of Derrida's philosophy. Most recently, The Implications of Immanence (Fordham, 2006) and This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2007). Klappentext Advocates life and non-violence Leonard Lawlor's groundbreaking book draws from a career-long exploration of the French philosophy of the 1960s in order to find a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The worst violence is the reaction of total apocalypse without remainder. It is the reaction of complete negation and death. It is nihilism. Lawlor argues not simply that transcendental violence must be minimized, but rather that all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He then offers new ways of speaking which will best achieve the least violence which he creatively appropriates from Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari as 'speaking-freely', 'speaking-distantly' and 'speaking-in-tongues'. Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: From Violence to Speaking OutPart I: On Transcendental Violence1. A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the Solution to the Problem of the Worst Violence2. What Happened? What is going to happen? An Essay on the Experience of the Event3. Is it happening? Or the Implications of Immanence4. The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good enoughPart II: Three Ways of Speaking5. Auto-Affection and Becoming: Following the Rats6. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness7. Speaking out for Others: Philosophy's Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger)8. 'The Dream of an Unusable Friendship': The Temptation of Evil and the Chance for Love in Derrida's Politics of Friendship9. Three Ways of Speaking, or 'Let others be Free': On Deleuze's 'Speaking-in-Tongues'; Foucault's 'Speaking-Freely'; and Derrida's 'Speaking-Distantly'Conclusion: Speaking out against ViolenceBibliographyIndex...
