Violence and nonviolence : conceptual excursions into phantom opposites / Peyman Vahabzadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahabzadeh, Peyman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Nonviolence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through an original and close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, this book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive. By revealing that violence and nonviolence are braided concepts arising from human action, Peyman Vahabzadeh submits that in many cases the actions deemed to be either violent or nonviolent might actually produce outcomes that are not essentially different. Vahabzadeh offers a conceptual phenomenology of the key thinkers and theorists of both revolutionary violence and various approaches to nonviolence. Arguing that violence is inseparable from civilizations, Violence and Nonviolence concludes by making a number of original conceptualizations regarding the relationship between violence and nonviolence, exploring the possibility of a nonviolent future and proposing to understand the relationship between the two concepts as concentric, not opposites.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Back to Violence

1. Towards a Radical Phenomenology of (Non)Violence

2. Deworlding, Reworlding, Phenomenal Violence

3. Acts of Liberation

4. On Liberation's Magical Moment

Interregnum

5. Logistical Necessity and Pragmatic Nonviolence

6. On the Utility of Nonviolence: Peace and the Question of Justice

7. Ethics of Nonviolence

8. The Conflictual Politics of Nonviolence

Conclusion: Not Opposites, Concentric!

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1959-1

1-4875-1958-3

OCLC:

1083120347