Philosophy against and in Praise of Violence: Kant, Thoreau and the Revolutionary Spectator

Autor:	Avram Alpert
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	French revolution Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject General Social Sciences State of affairs Cognitive reframing Revolutionary movement Political change Politics Aesthetics Law Political philosophy Sociology Praise media_common
Zdroj:	Theory, Culture & Society. 33:51-73
ISSN:	1460-3616 0263-2764
DOI:	10.1177/0263276416651976
Popis:	In this article, the author argues that the works of Immanuel Kant and Henry David Thoreau can help reframe current political discussions about violence and nonviolence within revolutionary movements. For both of them, the means and ends of political change must coincide. Since they seek a nonviolent state of affairs, each argues against violent political change. However, they are also concerned to articulate a relationship between armed and unarmed struggle. After all, Kant and Thoreau worked to find what was positive in violent acts: the French Revolution and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, respectively. They suggest that one of the ethical acts of revolutionary nonviolence is the sympathetic spectatorship of comrades in struggle who have chosen violent means. This opens up a theory of revolutionary nonviolence as a dual injunction to remain resolutely opposed to violence, but also to be capable of finding within violent acts a deeper desire for the end of violence.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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