Description
Here, philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left - from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists' training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter - to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense. In this history she finds a "martial ethics of the self": a practice in which violent self defense is the only means for the oppressed to ensure survival and to build a liveable future. In this sparkling and provocative book, drawing on theorists from Thomas Hobbes to Fred Hampton, Frantz Fanon to Judith Butler, Michel Foucault to June Jordan, Dorlin has reworked the very idea of modern governance and political subjectivity.
Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons.
A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher
About the Author
Elsa Dorlin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaures, and the author of The Matrix of Race: A Sexual and Colonial Genealogy of the French Nation and Sex, Genre, and Sexualities: Introduction to Feminist Theory. This is her first book to be translated into English.
Book Information
ISBN 9781839761058
Author Elsa Dorlin
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 249g