Violence and Political Theory 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 1509536736
• ISBN-13: 9781509536733
• Author: Elizabeth Frazer, Kimberly Hutchings

In this book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberley Hutchings explore how political theorists, from Niccolo Machiavelli to Elaine Scarry, have addressed these issues. They engage with both defenders and critics of violence in politics, analysing their diverse justificatory and rhetorical strategies in order to draw out the enduring themes of these debates. They show how political theorists have tended to evade the central difficulties raised by violence by either reducing it to a neutral tool or identifying it with something quite distinct, such as justice or virtue. They argue that, because violence is necessarily wrapped up with hierarchical and exclusive structures and imaginaries, legitimising it in terms of the ends that it serves, or how it is perpetrated, no longer makes sense.

Table contents:

1 Politics and Revolutionary Violence

2 Politics and State Violence

3 Politics and Violence Reconsidered

4 Politics as a Continuation of Violence

5 The Problem of Violence

6 Violence and the Transformation of Man

7 The Politicisation of Violence

8 Towards a Political Theory of Violence

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