Politics without Violence?: Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment by Jenny Pearc

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This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project. In addition, new sensibilities towards violence have generated social action on violence, turning this knowledge into practical impact.

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This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project. The book demonstrates that in theory and in practice, we now have the intellectual and scientific knowledge to make this possible. In addition, new sensibilities towards violence have generated social action on violence, turning this knowledge into practical impact. Scientifically, the first step is to recognize that only through interdisciplinary conversations can we fully realize this knowledge. Conversations between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, impossible in the twentieth century, are today possible and essential for understanding the phenomenon of violence, its multiple expressions and the factors that reproduce it. We can distinguish aggression from violence, the biological from the social body. In an echo of the rational Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, this book calls for an emotional Enlightenment in the twenty first and a post Weberian understanding of politics and the State.

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This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project. The book demonstrates that in theory and in practice, we now have the intellectual and scientific knowledge to make this possible. In addition, new sensibilities towards violence have generated social action on violence, turning this knowledge into practical impact. Scientifically, the first step is to recognize that only through interdisciplinary conversations can we fully realize this knowledge. Conversations between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, impossible in the twentieth century, are today possible and essential for understanding the phenomenon of violence, its multiple expressions and the factors that reproduce it. We can distinguish aggression from violence, the biological from the social body. In an echo of the rational Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, this book calls for an emotional Enlightenment in the twenty first and a post Weberian understanding of politics and the State. Jenny Pearce is Research Professor in the Latin America and Caribbean Centre of the London School of Economics, UK. Previously, she was Professor of Latin American Studies in Peace Studies, University of Bradford. She is a political scientist who works as an anthropologist and is also an anthropologist of peace. She has conducted fieldwork in many violent contexts in Latin America and was recognised as 'Outstanding Latin Americanist' at the International Conference of Americanistas in San Salvador in 2015.

Author Biography

Jenny Pearce is Research Professor in the Latin America and Caribbean Centre of the London School of Economics, UK. Previously, she was Professor of Latin American Studies in Peace Studies, University of Bradford. She is a political scientist who works as an anthropologist and is also an anthropologist of peace. She has conducted fieldwork in many violent contexts in Latin America and was recognised as 'Outstanding Latin Americanist' at the International Conference of Americanistas in San Salvador in 2015.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Violence and Politics: The Classical Lens.- Chapter 2: Violence and Politics: Critical Alternatives.- Chapter 3: The Distinctiveness of Violence: The Sense of Embodiment.- Chapter 4: The Distinctiveness of Violence: From the Biological to the Social Body.- Chapter 5: The Distinctiveness of Violence: The Military Organization of Social Power.- Chapter 6:The Monopoly of Violence: From Affect Control to Biopower.- Chapter 7: The Legitimacy of Violence.- Chapter 8: The Legality and Justice of Violence.- Conclusion: Violence and Politics: Towards and Emotional Enlightenment.

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Generates a radical new lens on politics, the State and the political by rethinking their relationship to violence, in theory and practice Creates an interdisciplinary conversation on violence as a phenomenon, in order to build a new debate in political science on the interface between politics and violence Argues that we have the knowledge to re-imagine--on scientific, not utopian grounds--the practical possibilities of a politics that reduces rather than reproduces violence and enables citizens to co-construct conditions to live together without it

Details ISBN303026081X Author Jenny Pearce Series Rethinking Political Violence Year 2019 ISBN-10 303026081X ISBN-13 9783030260811 Format Hardcover Pages 342 Publication Date 2019-11-13 Short Title Politics Without Violence? Language English Subtitle Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-26082-8 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2019-11-13 Illustrations XIII, 342 p. Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2020 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Alternative 9783030260842 DEWEY 303.625 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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