Full Description
Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks 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 that it is not just transcendental violence that must be minimised: all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He offers new ways of speaking to 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'.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: From Violence to Speaking Out
Part I: On Transcendental Violence
1. A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the Solution to the Problem of the Worst Violence
2. What Happened? What is going to happen? An Essay on the Experience of the Event
3. Is it happening? Or the Implications of Immanence
4. The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good enough
Part II: Three Ways of Speaking
5. Auto-Affection and Becoming: Following the Rats
6. The Origin of Parrēsia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness
7. Speaking out for Others: Philosophy's Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger)
8. 'The Dream of an Unusable Friendship': The Temptation of Evil and the Chance for Love in Derrida's Politics of Friendship
9. Three Ways of Speaking, or 'Let others be Free': On Deleuze's 'Speaking-in-Tongues'; Foucault's 'Speaking-Freely'; and Derrida's 'Speaking-Distantly'
Conclusion: Speaking out against Violence
Bibliography
Index
