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- Generates a radical new lens on politics, the State and the political by rethinking their relationship to violence, in theory and practice
- Creates an interdisciplinary conversation on violence as a phenomenon, in order to build a new debate in political science on the interface between politics and violence
- Argues that we have the knowledge to re-imagine—on scientific, not utopian grounds—the practical possibilities of a politics that reduces rather than reproduces violence and enables citizens to co-construct conditions to live together without it
Part of the book series: Rethinking Political Violence (RPV)
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Keywords
- violence
- meanings of violence
- classical political theory
- ontological human violence
- the state
- violence and politics
- Arendt
- Mouffe
- violence-free politics
- multiple lenses
- friendly and unfriendly politics
- evil
- pain
- reciprocal violence
- violence and the body
- social relationships
- survival mechanisms
- harmful actions
- state monopoly of violence
- Weber
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Book Title: Politics without Violence?
Book Subtitle: Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment
Authors: Jenny Pearce
Series Title: Rethinking Political Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26082-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26081-1Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26084-2Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26082-8Published: 31 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2752-8588
Series E-ISSN: 2752-8596
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 342
Topics: Terrorism and Political Violence, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, International Relations Theory, International Security Studies, Political Theory