RT Book
T1 Violence and political theory
T2 And political theory
A1 Frazer, Elizabeth
A1 Hutchings, Kimberly 1960-
A2 Hutchings, Kimberly 1960-
LA English
PP Cambridge, UK Medford, MA
PB Polity Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/168111450X
AB Is politics necessarily violent? Does the justifiability of violence depend on whether it is perpetrated to defend or upend the existing order – or perhaps on the way in which it is conducted? Is violence simply direct physical harm, or can it also be structural, symbolic, or epistemic? In this book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberley Hutchings explore how political theorists, from Niccolo Machiavelli to Elaine Scarry, have addressed these issues. They engage with both defenders and critics of violence in politics, analysing their diverse justificatory and rhetorical strategies in order to draw out the enduring themes of these debates. They show how political theorists have tended to evade the central difficulties raised by violence by either reducing it to a neutral tool or identifying it with something quite distinct, such as justice or virtue. They argue that, because violence is necessarily wrapped up with hierarchical and exclusive structures and imaginaries, legitimising it in terms of the ends that it serves, or how it is perpetrated, no longer makes sense.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-217
CN JC328.6
SN 9781509536719
SN 9781509536726
K1 Political Violence
K1 Violence : Political aspects
K1 Gewalttätigkeit
K1 Gewalt
K1 Politik
K1 Staatsgewalt
K1 Krieg
K1 Politisches Feld
K1 Gewaltlosigkeit
K1 Politische Theorie
K1 Politische Auseinandersetzung
K1 Gewalt : Politische Auseinandersetzung : Politische Theorie