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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
1474418244, 9781474418249
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2223989 bytes)
Series
Incitements
Pages
xii+308\321
Time added
2018-05-16 19:57:04
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Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks 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 offers new ways of speaking to 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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