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Addressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination examines a critique of violent and unjust social arrangements that transcends the Enlightenment/postmodern opposition. This critique surpasses the “reflexive violence” of classical enlightenment universalism without committing the “violence of reflexivity” by negating any possibility of collective radical social engagement. The unifying thread of the collection, edited by Marjan Ivkovic, Adriana Zaharijevic, and Gazela Pudar-Draško, is a sensitivity to the field of tension created by these extremes, especially for the issue of how to articulate a non-violent critique that is nevertheless “militant,” in the sense that it creates a rupture in an institutionalized order of violence. In Part One, the contributors examine the theoretical resources that help us move beyond the reflexive violence of the classical Enlightenment social critique in our quest for justice and non-domination. Part Two brings together nuanced attempts to reconsider the dominant modern understandings of violence, subjectivity, and society without succumbing to the violence of reflexivity that characterizes radically anti-Enlightenment standpoints.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marjan Ivkovic, Adriana Zaharijevic and Gazela Pudar-Draško

Part One: Reflexive Violence: Critique, Negativity, and Contingency
Chapter One: Violence of the Concept in Hegel
Zdravko Kobe
Chapter Two: Subjectivity and Violence: A Hegelian Perspective
Luca Illetterati
Chapter Three: Against Autonomy: Freedom as Heteronomy without Servitude
Vladimir Safatle
Chapter Four: The Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence
Judith Butler

Part Two: Violence of Reflexivity: Practicing Critique Today
Chapter Five: Violence of Critique
Predrag Krstic
Chapter Six: Critique as a Microphysics of Freedom: A Disposition beyond the Dispositive
Gaetano Chiurazzi
Chapter Seven: Violence and the Apocalypse: Beyond the Hobbesian Vision
Siniša Maleševic
Chapter Eight: The Police: Instituting Violence
Petar Bojanic and Gazela Pudar-Draško
Chapter Nine: Emancipation of Women vs. Misogyny
Sanja Bojanic
Index
About the Contributors

Product details

Published May 23 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9781666910186
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 228 x 160 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Marjan Ivkovic

Anthology Editor

Adriana Zaharijevic

Anthology Editor

Gazela Pudar Draško

Contributor

Petar Bojanic

Contributor

Sanja Bojanic

Contributor

Judith Butler

Contributor

Zdravko Kobe

Contributor

Predrag Krstic

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