From Violence to Speaking Out

Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze

Leonard Lawlor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1824-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. Lawlor argues all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He engages with Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari to create new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence.

Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The worst violence is the reaction of total apocalypse without remainder; it is the reaction of complete negation and death; it is nihilism. Lawlor argues that it is not just transcendental violence that must be minimised: all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He offers new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence, which he creatively appropriates from Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari as ‘speaking-freely’, ‘speaking-distantly’ and ‘speaking-in-tongues’.

Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the leading Derrida scholars in the United States today and has written numerous books that deal, either in whole or in part, with the implications of Derrida's philosophy. Most recently, The Implications of Immanence (Fordham, 2006) and This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: From Violence to Speaking Out

Part I: On Transcendental Violence

1. A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the Solution to the Problem of the Worst Violence

2. What Happened? What is going to happen? An Essay on the Experience of the Event

3. Is it happening? Or the Implications of Immanence

4. The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good enough

Part II: Three Ways of Speaking

5. Auto-Affection and Becoming: Following the Rats

6. The Origin of Parrēsia in Foucault’s Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness

7. Speaking out for Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger)

8. 'The Dream of an Unusable Friendship': The Temptation of Evil and the Chance for Love in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship

9. Three Ways of Speaking, or 'Let others be Free': On Deleuze’s 'Speaking-in-Tongues'; Foucault’s 'Speaking-Freely'; and Derrida’s 'Speaking-Distantly'

Conclusion: Speaking out against Violence

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Incitements
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 190 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-1824-4 / 1474418244
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1824-9 / 9781474418249
Zustand	Neuware