Description:
Through a close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, the book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive.
Brief description:
Peyman Vahabzadeh is professor of Sociology at University of Victoria.
Review Quotes:
" Violence and Nonviolence will be a major contribution to the field; the book develops a post-Heideggerian approach to a central topic within politics, specifically, the interface between violence and nonviolence, according to the basic precepts of phenomenology."
--Frank Schalow, University Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans" Violence and Nonviolence will appeal to a number of different audiences and will be useful to scholars and students of social movements, social and political theory and to those who are interested in the study of political and revolutionary change. Especially critical is the book's convincing critique of current modes of thought and discourses that present violence and non-violence as mutually exclusive - discourses that as the author says in reference to certain readers of Gandhi, "try to extract breeze from the hurricane." This book creates an analytical space for deeper studies of social/revolutionary movements, which can maneuver across the terms, (non)violence, without at the same time losing any and all ability to distinguish between them."
--Mark Ayyash, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Royal University