Violence and Reflexivity : The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination

Ivkovic, Marjan (EDT); Zaharijevic, Adriana (EDT); Drasko, Gazela Pudar (EDT); Bojanic, Petar (CON); Bojanic, Sanja (CON)

ISBN 10: 166691018X / ISBN 13: 9781666910186

Published by Lexington Books, 2022

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• Title: Violence and Reflexivity : The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 166691018X
• ISBN 13: 9781666910186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Addressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination examines a critique of violent and unjust social arrangements that transcends the Enlightenment/postmodern opposition. This critique surpasses the “reflexive violence” of classical enlightenment universalism without committing the “violence of reflexivity” by negating any possibility of collective radical social engagement. The unifying thread of the collection, edited by Marjan Ivkovic, Adriana Zaharijevic, and Gazela Pudar-Draško, is a sensitivity to the field of tension created by these extremes, especially for the issue of how to articulate a non-violent critique that is nevertheless “militant,” in the sense that it creates a rupture in an institutionalized order of violence. In Part One, the contributors examine the theoretical resources that help us move beyond the reflexive violence of the classical Enlightenment social critique in our quest for justice and non-domination. Part Two brings together nuanced attempts to reconsider the dominant modern understandings of violence, subjectivity, and society without succumbing to the violence of reflexivity that characterizes radically anti-Enlightenment standpoints.

About the Authors

Judith Butler is the author of several books including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection, Excitable Speech, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, and The Force of Non-Violence. In addition to numerous academic honors and publications, Butler has published editorials and reviews in The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Nation, Time Magazine, the London Review of Books, and in a wide range of journals, newspapers, radio and podcast programs throughout Europe, Latin America, Central and South Asia, and South Africa. They live in Berkeley.

Luca Illetterati is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy. He is a
member of the Board of the 'Internationale Hegel Vereinigung', President of the Italian Society for
Theoretical Philosophy, and Coordinator of the scientific group on Classical German Philosophy at
the University of Padua (www.hegelpd.it).