| Summary: | “Some fleeting glimpse of utopia”. Nonviolence and the challenge of ethical-political planning in Judith Butler
The thesis at the heart of this paper is that, in her latest text, The Force of Nonviolence. An Ethico-Political Bind, Judith Butler presents a moment of reflection with original aspects compared to her previous thought. She inaugurates here a new point of view in her thinking, through which also previous categories and concepts undergo a shift useful to actively act for the preparation of the future. By deepening and autonomizing the theme of nonviolence, the critical thinker intends to elaborate an ethical-political dimension that, keeping anarchic accents and shared inventiveness from below, wants to present itself as a credible and universalizable alternative. In this framework, not without shadows, complications and paradoxes, nonviolence takes on the shape of what embodies the utopian possibility, common to all human beings, to open a different, revolutionary future, where the reproduction of violence – both psychic, social and, finally and above all, institutional – is stopped, with a view to taking on the vulnerability and precariousness of living beings.
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