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SUMMARY:Violent and Non-Violent Bodies: Bringing Beauvoir and Bulter in Conversation
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DESCRIPTION:<strong>Abstract</strong>: The paper engages with Beauvoir&rsquo\;s claim that violence is the authentic test of one&rsquo\;s subjectivity (SS\, 355). The paper begins by briefly discussing Beauvoir&rsquo\;s insistence on the close relationship between the ability to express oneself through violence and one&rsquo\;s subjectivity. I place her views on violence alongside Judith Butler&rsquo\;s views on non-violence. Butler argues that we are already in the &lsquo\;force-field of violence&rsquo\;\, but she claims that even to counter the injustice of such violence we need to use non-violent means (2020\, 25\, 47). I find Butler&rsquo\;s claims poignant\; however\, I believe that Beauvoir&rsquo\;s work shows that just being within the force-field of violence\, does not open up violence and non-violence as two viable options. By bringing Beauvoir&rsquo\;s examples of &lsquo\;the black man&rsquo\; in the South of the United States\, &lsquo\;the French man under German occupation&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;the tomboy&rsquo\; (SS 354-355)\, I examine her claim that if violence is excluded from one&rsquo\;s horizon of choices as a viable option\, one does not merely &lsquo\;picks it up&rsquo\;. Furthermore\, if one does not know what it means to choose violence\, one cannot choose non-violence either\; one rather remains passive.\n&nbsp\;\nFor the link to the talk\, email caleb.perl@acu.edu.au
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