THE FORCE OF NON

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst ofthe political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a wa...[Leer más]