Journal of Power and Ethics articles from July 2001

Journal of Power and Ethics archives from July 2001

Violence: a philosophical critique Part 1.
July 1, 2001... PREFACE Most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. --Martin Heidegger We made pilgrimage there [Ground Zero]. Confusion of tongues. Some cried vengeance. Others paced slow, pondering...

Black dada nihilismus: Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, and the traumatic politics Of conversion.
July 1, 2001... Abstract Responding to what he sees as the "nihilist threat" to African-American culture, Cornel West has called for a "politics of conversion" (West, 1993: 18). Though subject to reproach from critics seeking particular forms of practical...

On violence (again): Arendtian reflections.(Hannah Arendt)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2001... Abstract We live in a world of steadily escalating violence--from ethnic cleansings and genocides to seemingly unending "terror wars." Some thirty years ago, Hannah Arendt wrote her reflections "on Violence" which drew a sharp line between...

Gandhi: nonviolence and violence.(Mohandas K. Gandhi)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Gandhi is widely regarded as a champion of the nonviolent resolution of conflict. His views on nonviolence and violence are initially explored by analyzing his concepts of truth and autonomy. Succeeding sections take up his...

Levinas and violence.(Emmanuel Levinas)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2001... Abstract Defining violence as almost any act of self-assertion, the Talmudic scholar and postmodern philosopher Emmanuel Levinas would overcome violence by an act of counter-violence, as he calls it, in which I invite the other to shatter...