Leonard Lawlor

From Violence to Speaking Out (eBook, ePUB)

Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474418270
• Artikelnr.: 50402108

Autorenporträt

Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the leading Derrida scholars in the United States today and has written numerous books that deal, either in whole or in part, with the implications of Derrida's philosophy. Most recently, The Implications of Immanence (Fordham, 2006) and This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: From Violence to Speaking Out
Part I: On Transcendental Violence
1. A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the
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 Parresia 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 Deleuze's
'Speaking-in-Tongues'; Foucault's 'Speaking-Freely'; and Derrida's
'Speaking-Distantly'
Conclusion: Speaking out against Violence
Bibliography
Index