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Self-Defense - A Philosophy of Violence (Paperback)
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Self-Defense - A Philosophy of Violence (Paperback)
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Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism,
racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line
between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been
disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, France's
infamous "Code Noir" forbade slaves from carrying weapons, under
penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria, the colonial
state outlawed the use of arms by Algerians, but granted French
settlers the right to bear arms. Today, some lives are seen to be
worth so little that Black teenagers can be shot in the back for
appearing "threatening" while their killers are understood, by the
state, to be justified. That those subject to the most violence
have been forcibly made defenseless raises, for any movement of
liberation, the question of using violence in the interest of
self-defense. Here, philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global
history of the left - from slave revolts to the knitting women of
the French Revolution and British suffragists' training in
ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther
Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter - to
trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense. In this
history she finds a "martial ethics of the self": a practice in
which violent self defense is the only means for the oppressed to
ensure survival and to build a liveable future. In this sparkling
and provocative book, drawing on theorists from Thomas Hobbes to
Fred Hampton, Frantz Fanon to Judith Butler, Michel Foucault to
June Jordan, Dorlin has reworked the very idea of modern governance
and political subjectivity. Translated from the French by Kieran
Aarons.
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