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Political Violence

Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
  • Edited by: Panu-Matti Pöykkö , Pamela Slotte Russo and Viljami Salo
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of essays critically investigates forms and modes of justification of political violence from historical and contemporary perspectives, especially within the context of the development of the idea of Europe and modern European identity. What is meant by political violence and aggression? When and under which conditions is it justified? Who has the right to exercise it and against whom? Answers differ depending on various factors such as pre-established ends, available resources and possibilities of action, historical and socio-economic context, the ideological, political, and religious-theological background of the actors. The volume pays special attention to (a) how the above questions have been addressed and answered political, philosophical and theological thought, and (b) what kind of ideological currents and historical events lay at the background of such considerations.

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Panu-Matti Pöykkö and Viljami Salo, University of Helsinki; Pamela Slotte Russo, Åbo Akademi University/Univ. of Helsinki, Finland.

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Contents

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Introduction

Panu-Matti Pöykkö and Pamela Slotte Russo
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I
Between intimacy and abyss: Early modern European ideas on enmity in civil war

Martino Tognocchi
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Totalitarian violence and the rise of human dignity after the Second World War: European legal history as a vision of dignity

Kaius Tuori
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Fratelli tutti and the Christian just war tradition

Tamas Nyirkos
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II
Political nonviolence and self-defense: Reconsidering Martin Luther King Jr.

William E. Scheuerman
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Violence in self-determination conflicts: Exploring the zone of exception in international law

Przemyslaw Tacik
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Nonviolent political skepticism in the first half of the European twentieth century: Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper and Michael Oakeshott

Spartaco Pupo
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III
Exceptions (to exceptions) and decisions (about decisions) in Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology

Aaron James Goldman
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On the axiomatics of death, violence, and sovereignty: Baruch Spinoza’s shadows in twentieth century political theory

Ville Suuronen
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A sovereign illusion: On the political theology of border walling

Piotr Sawczyński
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On (not) breaking the wheel of violence: A critique of Herbert Marcuse

Olli-Pekka Vainio
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IV
Albert Camus’s political antitheodicy

Aleksei Rakhmanin
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A conservative justification for the political violence of the French Revolution?

Marianne Sandelin
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Can a revolution be successful without political violence? Benjamin Constant’s account of legitimacy in the beginning of nineteenth century

Konstantinos Grigoriadis
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Contributors

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Bibliography

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Index

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eBook published on:
November 18, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110990645
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November 18, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783110999884
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110990645
eBook ISBN: 9783110990645
Paperback ISBN: 9783110999884
Keywords for this book
Political violence; history of ideas; European identity
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Scholars of intellectual, contemporary, and cultural history, students, librarians
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