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Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
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Routledge
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Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" and crafts an alternative response: one that rejects terrorist tactics, preemptive war and Western... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Theoretical Framework 2: Existential Human Reality 3: Violence and Counter-Violence 4: Terrorizing the Other: Terror-Fraternity and Terrorism 5: Responding to 9/11: Counter-Violence and Preemptive War 6: Reflection and Invention When Morality Has Fallen 7: Limits of Democracy Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Jennifer Ang Mei Sze received her PhD in Philosophy from The University of Queensland.
"Ang has written an interesting book that will undoubtedly be revisited in the coming months within the context of the ongoing struggles in the Middle East and North Africa. Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism is yet another example of why Sartre’s writing remains relevant to the twenty-first century, and another reason why, to repeat Sartre’s The Problem of Method, philosophy is always ‘a social and political weapon’." --Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
