Philosophy of Violence: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

✍ Scribed by John Sodiq Sanni; Charles Mathurin Villet

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress. The contributors interpret African concepts and themes to include accounts of violence, explicitly or implicitly construed from indigenous axiological resources like Ubuntu or personhood and from those works that are not African in origin but have become central in African moral, political and legal thought, such as Hannah Arendt’s On Violence and Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence. The volume contributes to moral philosophy, social philosophy, African philosophy, and political philosophy/theory. It situates itself within the Global South, specifically the African perspective, to explore, articulate, and defend (or even critique) African conceptions of violence. This volume also takes seriously the need to tap into the intellectual resource of the African and diasporic African episteme thruthinkers such as Steve Biko, Frantz Fanon and Reiland Rabaka. It appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy and related disciplines on violence in Africa and the postcolonial context.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Philosophy of Violence: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Chapter 2: Reimagining the Colonial Condition: Understanding Unhappiness in Context to the Colonial Wound
1 Introduction
2 Uhuru and the Healing Journey; Resisting the Colonial Condition
3 Intergenerational and Epigenetic Trauma, and Memory Work
4 The Personal Is Political
5 Psychic Death: Healing from Cognitive and Affective Dissonance
6 Resisting the Link Between Colonialism and Psychopathy
7 Healing from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
8 Uhuru, Ubuntu, Ujamaa and Decolonial Love
9 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis
1 Introduction
2 A Discussion Between Arendt and Sorel
2.1 Violence and Revolution
2.2 The Relation Between Violence and Politics
3 Arendt Versus Benjamin?
3.1 Mythical and Divine Violence
3.2 Violence, Force, Law
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations
1 Introduction
2 Richard Turner´s Conception of Socialisations
3 Contemporary Conception of Violence
4 The Need for Internal Violence
5 A Critique of Absolute Socialisations
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Corrective´ Sexual Violence in South Africa: A Crime Against the Deviant Sexualised Other 1 Introduction 1.1 A Brief, but Necessary, Qualifier 2 South Africa´s Culture of (Sexual and Gender-Based) Violence 2.1 Our Violent History: Colonisation, Apartheid & the Consolidation of Militant Masculinities 2.2 Constitutional Transformation: Renegotiating Gendered/Sexual Identity & the Consolidation of Militant Masculinities 2.3 Militant Masculinities and Heteronormative, Patriarchal Ideologies 3Corrective´ Sexual Violence in South Africa
3.1 Streamlining
3.2 Corrective´ Rape 3.3 The Contingency of Heteronormativity & Hegemonic Masculinities: Abnormality Poses a Threat 3.4 AnAuthentic´ South African Identity: The Pushback Against Westernisation
4 Philosophy of the Other´ 4.1 Unintelligibility: The Other as Inhuman 4.2 Otherness as Difference:I/You´ & Us/Them´ 4.3 Otherness as Deviance:Us-and-Not-Us´
4.4 Simone de Beauvoir: Woman as the Inessential Other
4.5 Louise du Toit: Woman as the (Original) Animal Other
4.6 Deviance from the Universal and/or Social
5 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 6: Women, Violence, and Social Activism: From Aba Women´s Protest to #EndSARS Protests
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Framework
2.1 African Feminist Theory
2.2 Public Sphere Theory
3 Overview of the Study Area
4 The Aba Women´s War
5 The Abeokuta Women´s Tax Revolt
6 The #EndSARS Protest
7 Areas of Convergence and Divergence Between the Aba Women´s War, Abeokuta Tax Revolt and #EndSARS Protests
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: An Anger-Based Contextualist Account of Justifiable Violence: An African Case Study
1 Setting the Stage
2 Violence in Democratic Africa
3 The Decolonization-Based Consequentialist African Philosophy of Violence
4 The Place of Anger in Violence: From Consequentialism to Contextualism
5 An Anger-Based Contextualist African Moral Philosophy of Violence
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective
1 Introduction
2 Part I: Key Theories and Their Shortcomings
2.1 Separation Theory
2.2 Integration Theory
2.3 Agency Theory
2.4 Concordance Theory
3 Part II: The Quadrumvirate Interaction Theory
3.1 Indicators of Agreement
3.2 Quadrumvirate Levels of Interaction
3.3 A Typology of the Exertion of Agency by the Citizenry
4 Part III: CMR in Nigeria and Beyond
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Zizek, Yousfi and Fanon
1 Crude Decolonial Iconoclasm and Its Internal Critics
2 Pyrrhic Victories´´ of Militant-Artistic Contestations 3 Counter-Monumental StrategiesTrapped´´ by Colonial Reason
4 From Civil to Incivil Disobedience
5 No Need for Taliban´´ Practices? 6 Zizek and Jameson onFanonian´´ Revolutionary Violence
7 Remaining Barbaric: From Yousfi to Fanon, and Back
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: A Postcolonial Theory of Recognition: Honneth and Fanon on Violence and Mutual Recognition
1 Introduction
2 Creolising Honneth´s Theory of Recognition (Via Fanon)
2.1 Emotional Support: The Primary Relationships of Love and Friendship
2.2 Cognitive Respect: Legal Relations and Rights
2.3 Social Esteem: Community of Value and Solidarity
2.4 Disrespect and the Denial of Recognition
3 Violence and the Non-rational Challenge to Mutual Recognition
3.1 Jinadu: Forms of Violence in the Work of Fanon
3.2 Fanonian Forms of Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa
4 Conclusion
References
Index