PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jean-Paul Sartre, Tyrant, Totalitarianism
12 Dec 2012
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Lecture 14 (nov. 5) on violence arendt. Main reason that warfare is still with us is because we have no substitute violence is always a last resort. If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then violence is not simply a disruption of the political process, it is considered to be politics itself: the way that we do politics. Violence is the status quo, naturalized, taken for granted and not questioned. Politics and violence have become synonymous extreme violence (how we come up with. Sartre and fanon are criticized for suggesting that human kind is recreated through violence: this is a glorification of violence (leftist emancipatory politics in general, she is not criticizing state violence, she is complaining about revolutionary violence. Violence does not heal the wounds it has inflicted if it were true, and we could see the results, we would see revenge would cure most of our ills: myth and fantasy of annihilating our enemies.
