Violence: A Slippery Notion

• Authors: Salanskis Jean-Michel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Violence works at the same time as what we find in the world according to our best description of reality, and as what we fight and reject, hoping for a more peaceful world. It may also be what we recommend, as the only way to change things, or even what we celebrate, as the key resource of true art. Sometimes we even think that adequate theory arises from violence against given paradigms. How can it be so? Do we really understand what we refer to when we speak about violence?

Keywords

EN

violence; language; capitalism; evil; suffering; Lyotard; energy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2(8)
• Pages: 5–12

Dates

published

2019-07-31

Contributors

author

Salanskis Jean-Michel

• Department of Philosophy, University of Paris X Nanterre

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0013