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Political Violence : Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: Undetermined Publisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9783110990645
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Summary: This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of essays critically investigates forms and modes of justification of political violence from historical and contemporary perspectives, especially within the context of the development of the idea of Europe and modern European identity. What is meant by political violence and aggression? When and under which conditions is it justified? Who has the right to exercise it and against whom? Answers differ depending on various factors such as pre-established ends, available resources and possibilities of action, historical and socio-economic context, the ideological, political, and religious-theological background of the actors. The volume pays special attention to (a) how the above questions have been addressed and answered political, philosophical and theological thought, and (b) what kind of ideological currents and historical events lay at the background of such considerationsPPN: PPN: 1922672645Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I -- Between intimacy and abyss: Early modern European ideas on enmity in civil war -- Totalitarian violence and the rise of human dignity after the Second World War: European legal history as a vision of dignity -- Fratelli tutti and the Christian just war tradition -- II -- Political nonviolence and self-defense: Reconsidering Martin Luther King Jr. -- Violence in self-determination conflicts: Exploring the zone of exception in international law -- Nonviolent political skepticism in the first half of the European twentieth century: Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper and Michael Oakeshott -- III -- Exceptions (to exceptions) and decisions (about decisions) in Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Carl Schmitt's Political Theology -- On the axiomatics of death, violence, and sovereignty: Baruch Spinoza's shadows in twentieth century political theory -- A sovereign illusion: On the political theology of border walling -- On (not) breaking the wheel of violence: A critique of Herbert Marcuse -- IV -- Albert Camus's political antitheodicy -- A conservative justification for the political violence of the French Revolution? -- Can a revolution be successful without political violence? Benjamin Constant's account of legitimacy in the beginning of nineteenth century -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
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