Force of Nonviolence
Force of Nonviolence "Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and…
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Force of Nonviolence
"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. BernsteinJudith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality.
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. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence