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From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze

By Leonard Lawlor

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474418263
DOI
10.1515/9781474418263
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2725451 bytes)
Pages
320\316
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 02:03:13

Description

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 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 then offers new ways of speaking which will 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'.

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