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The force of nonviolence : an ethico-political bind / Judith Butler.

by Butler, Judith, 1956-

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Nonviolence -- Moral and ethical aspects.

American essays -- 21st century.

9781788732765 (hc.)

x, 209 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley) presents how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, she 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. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. 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. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilized in the service of ratifying the state’s monopoly on violence."

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