Towards an Analytic of Violence: Foucault, Arendt & Power

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Result on the web

<a href="https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/5577/6220" target="_blank" >https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/5577/6220</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v25i2.5577" target="_blank" >10.22439/fs.v25i2.5577</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Towards an Analytic of Violence: Foucault, Arendt & Power

Original language description

Violence is an often used but much less theoretically discussed word, even among Foucauldian scholars, with Johanna Oksala being a notable exception. However, she limits her definition of violence to physical forms. In this article, I seek to overcome the quandaries she poses for wide-ranging definitions of violence by incorporating Arendt&apos;s critique of violence into a Foucauldian paradigm. While some work, though not a great deal, has been done on comparing Arendt and Foucault, I highlight some points of commonality that makes Arendtian violence accessible to Foucauldian scholars that mostly rest on the concept of freedom. If power is productive to the extent that it provides the potential to act otherwise, Arendt, in many ways, situates violence as the prevention of this, similar to Foucault&apos;s account of domination. Violence and power are therefore cast in a symbiotic relationship, not limited to physicality, whereby power produces meaning as well as the ability to act and violence is projected as preventive; in such a scenario, the push for freedom can be positioned as a second-order normative claim.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Foucault Studies

ISSN

1832-5203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

25

Country of publishing house

AU - AUSTRALIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

120-145

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055417574