Violence - A Reappraisal

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? This volume brings together essays by political theorists, intellectual historians, and other social scientists to reflect on these classic questions anew.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Violence and Vietnamese Anticolonialism 2. Revolutionary Self-Defense as a Rival Ethics of Nonviolence: Rojava and Kurdish Liberation 3. George Jackson's Perfect Disorder 4. Violence and Resistance to the State: Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence 5. A World without Men: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Uses of Violence 6. Policing Potential Violence 7. Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence 8. Silence Is Violence, and So Is Speech

About the author

Kevin Duong is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, USA. He teaches political theory and intellectual history and is the author of The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France. Much of his research focuses on how the revolutionary agency of "the people" is expressed, but his interests extend beyond democratic theory to fields such as queer theory, political violence, the history of the human sciences, colonialism and empire, and the history of the left.

Summary

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? This volume brings together essays by political theorists, intellectual historians, and other social scientists to reflect on these classic questions anew.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin (University of Virginia Duong
• Assisted by: Kevin Duong (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032460611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246061-1
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Violence in society, Warfare and defence, Political science and theory, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Violence and abuse in society