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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bernstein, Richard J. (1932-....)
Titre(s) : Violence [Texte imprimé] : thinking without banisters / Richard J. Bernstein
Publication : Cambridge : Polity, 2013
Description matérielle : ix, 228 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : The aporias of Carl Schmitt ; Walter Benjamin : divine violence? ; Hannah Arendt
: on violence and power ; Frantz Fanon's Critique of violence ; Jan Assmann : the
mosaic distinction and religious violence ; Reflections on nonviolence and violence.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether
on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we canʹt escape representations
of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high
school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence. Our
age could well be called "The Age of Violence" because representations of real or
imagined violence, sometimes fused together, are pervasive. But what do we mean by
violence? What can violence achieve? Are there limits to violence and, if so, what
are they? In this new book Richard Bernstein seeks to answer these questions by examining
the work of five figures who have thought deeply about violence - Carl Schmitt, Walter
Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and Jan Assmann. He shows that we have much
to learn from their work about the meaning of violence in our times. Through the critical
examination of their writings he also brings out the limits of violence. There are
compelling reasons to commit ourselves to non-violence, and yet at the same time we
have to acknowledge that there are exceptional circumstances in which violence can
be justified. Bernstein argues that there can be no general criteria for determining
when violence is justified. The only plausible way of dealing with this issue is to
cultivate publics in which there is free and open discussion and in which individuals
are committed to listen to one other: when public debate withers, there is nothing
to prevent the triumph of murderous violence. -- Publisher description
Sujet(s) : Violence -- Philosophie
Non-violence -- Philosophie
Philosophie politique -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0745670636. - ISBN 9780745670638. - ISBN 0745670644 (pb). - ISBN 9780745670645
(pb) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43811829n
Notice n° :
FRBNF43811829
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