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

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Leonard 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 not simply that transcendental violence must be minimised, but rather that 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'. -- from back cover.;Introduction: from violence to speaking out -- Part I. On transcendental violence -- A new possibility of life: the experience of powerlessness as a solution to the problem of the worst violence -- What happened? What is going to happen? An essay on the experience of the event -- Is it happening? Or, the implications of immanence -- The flipside of violence, or beyond the thought of good enough -- Part II. Three ways of speaking -- Auto-affection and becoming: following the rats -- The origin of Parrēsia in Foucault's thinking: truth and freedom in The history of madness -- Speaking out for others: philosophy's activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) -- "The dream of an unusable friendship": the temptation of evil and the chance for love in Derrida's Politics of friendship -- 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. Introduction: from violence to speaking out -- Part I. On transcendental violence -- A new possibility of life: the experience of powerlessness as a solution to the problem of the worst violence -- What happened? What is going to happen? An essay on the experience of the event -- Is it happening? Or, the implications of immanence -- The flipside of violence, or beyond the thought of good enough -- Part II. Three ways of speaking -- Auto-affection and becoming: following the rats -- The origin of Parrēsia in Foucault's thinking: truth and freedom in The history of madness -- Speaking out for others: philosophy's activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) -- "The dream of an unusable friendship": the temptation of evil and the chance for love in Derrida's Politics of friendship -- 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.