From Violence to Speaking Out : : Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze / / Leonard Lawlor.

Develops the Derridean idea of the worst violence and creates new ways of speaking out against itLeonard Lawlor's groundbreaking book draws from a career-long exploration of the French philosophy of the 1960s in order to find a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The wors...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Incitements : INCI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction: From Violence to Speaking Out
  • Part I: On Transcendental Violence
  • 1 A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as a 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 Foucault's "Speaking-Freely"; Derrida's "Speaking-Distantly"; and Deleuze's "Speaking in Tongues"
  • Conclusion: Speaking Out Against Violence
  • Bibliography
  • Index