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The Critique of Nonviolence - Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Critique of Nonviolence - Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically
and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological
conception of racist police violence? In this important new work,
Mark Christian Thompson attempts to answer these questions,
examining ontology in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy.
Specifically, the book reads King through 1920s German academic
debates between Martin Heidegger, Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas, Carl
Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt, and others on Being,
gnosticism, existentialism, political theology, and sovereignty. It
further examines King's dissertation about Tillich, as well other
key texts from his speculative writings, sermons, and speeches,
positing King's understanding of divine love as a form of
Heideggerian ontology articulated in beloved community. Tracking
the presence of twentieth-century German philosophy and theology in
his thought, the book situates King's ontology conceptually and
socially in nonviolent protest. In so doing, The Critique of
Nonviolence reads King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
with Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" (1921) to reveal the
depth of King's political-theological critique of police violence
as the illegitimate appropriation of the racialized state of
exception. As Thompson argues, it is in part through its
appropriation of German philosophy and theology that King's
ontology condemns the perpetual American state of racial exception
that permits unlimited police violence against Black lives.
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