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Violence cannot be curbed
Andrzej Leder
andrzej.leder@ifispan.edu.pl Author BiographyAndrzej Leder - professor of philosophy, works at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and also practices psychotherapy. He has published a philosophical treatise: Freud's Science in the Era of 'Sein und Zeit', a work on Polish history: The Revolution Thrived, an exercise in historical logic, a treatise on philosophical ideas in 20th-century Europe: A Scratch on the Tapestry. Theory in the Psychoanalytic Field and I Was Once Postmodernism, a philosophical analysis of the languages of economics: Economics is a State of Mind. An Exercise in the Semantics of Economic Languages, and in English: The Changing Guise of Myths and in German Polen in Wachtraum. Die Revolution 1939-1956 und Ihre Folge. He teaches at the School of Social Sciences (GSSR) of the Institute of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He lives in Warsaw.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1702-3706
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 20 (2024), Pages:
Submission Date: 2024-03-26Publication Date: 2024-12-17
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1049
Abstract
The author presents the thesis that once unleashed, violence can never be curbed, made a local event. It spills over, penetrates through the cracks, chews through the walls and partitions placed in its path. But people forget this. And this is the research question of the text. What is this belief that violence can be enclosed in some kind of framework, separated and watched only as it rages somewhere out there, behind a wall, abroad, or behind the windows of a building, when someone is beaten or raped in the street? The author formulates the assumption that such a belief in the limitation of violence is only possible when a person, people, some part of them, denounce the commonality of fate to another person, other people, some other part of society.
Keywords
violence , community , denial , Hamas , Israel , Hannah Arendt , Marcel Gauchet , Naomi Klein
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