Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I
5. Between intimacy and abyss: Early modern European ideas on enmity in civil war 15
6. Totalitarian violence and the rise of human dignity after the Second World War: European legal history as a vision of dignity 37
7. Fratelli tutti and the Christian just war tradition 51
8. II
9. Political nonviolence and self-defense: Reconsidering Martin Luther King Jr. 71
10. Violence in self-determination conflicts: Exploring the zone of exception in international law 91
11. Nonviolent political skepticism in the first half of the European twentieth century: Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper and Michael Oakeshott 109
12. III
13. Exceptions (to exceptions) and decisions (about decisions) in Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology 131
14. On the axiomatics of death, violence, and sovereignty: Baruch Spinoza’s shadows in twentieth century political theory 153
15. A sovereign illusion: On the political theology of border walling 177
16. On (not) breaking the wheel of violence: A critique of Herbert Marcuse 189
17. IV
18. Albert Camus’s political antitheodicy 209
19. A conservative justification for the political violence of the French Revolution? 229
20. Can a revolution be successful without political violence? Benjamin Constant’s account of legitimacy in the beginning of nineteenth century 249
21. Contributors 267
22. Bibliography 269
23. Index 297