From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze (Incitements) - Softcover

Leonard Lawlor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474418252 ISBN 13: 9781474418256

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Develops the Derridean idea of the worst violence and creates new ways of speaking out against it

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Advocates life and non-violence Leonard Lawlor's groundbreaking book draws from a career-long exploration of the French philosophy of the 1960s in order to find 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 not simply that transcendental violence must be minimized, but rather that all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He then offers new ways of speaking which will 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'. Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474418252
• ISBN 13: 9781474418256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320