Theorizing Among Ruins: An Existentialist Perspective on Political Violence

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2005-03-30

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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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In this talk, Gatta considers the contribution of German philosopher Karl Jaspers to a possible mode of theorizing violence, in particular the experience of violence, as defining trait of human existence and something that political theory cannot afford to ignore. In particular, Gatta dwells on Karl Jaspers’s notion of boundary situation as enabling both attention to the fact of struggle and violence and a reflection on the possibility of its episodic overcoming.

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political violence, Karl Jaspers, existentialism

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31726

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2004-05 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences