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The Virtues of Violence - Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France (Paperback)
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The Virtues of Violence - Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France (Paperback)
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If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what
can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of
Violence, Kevin Duong argues that one particular answer captivated
modern French thinkers: popular violence as social regeneration. In
this tradition of political theory, the people's violence was not a
sign of anarchy or disorder. Instead, it manifested a redemptive
power capable of binding and repairing a society on the cusp of
social disintegration. This was not a fringe view of French
democracy at the time, but central to its momentous development.
Duong analyzes the recurring role of the people's redemptive
violence across four historical moments: the French Revolution, the
imperial conquest of Algeria, the Paris Commune, and the years
leading up to World War I. Bringing together democratic theory and
intellectual history, he reveals how political thinkers across the
spectrum proclaimed that violence by the people could repair the
social fabric, even as they experienced democratization as social
disintegration. The path from an anarchic multitude to an organized
democratic society required the virtuous expression of violence by
the people-not its prohibition. Duong's book urges us to reject
accounts that view redemptive violence as an antidemocratic
pathology. It challenges the long-held view that popular violence
is a sign of anarchy or disorder. As shocking and unsettling as
redemptive violence could be, it appealed to thinkers across the
spectrum, because it answered a fundamental dilemma of political
modernity: how to replace the severed bonds of the old regime with
a superior democratic social bond. The Virtues of Violence argues
we do not properly understand modern democracy unless we can
understand why popular redemptive violence could be invoked on its
behalf.
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