Gewalt und Ordnung : zur Aktualität eines alten Diskurses

• Main Author: Herberg-Rothe, Andreas
• Format: Others
• Language: German
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2004
• Subjects: Staatsgewalt; Machtpolitik; State violence; power politics; Political science
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46387; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/texte_eingeschraenkt_welttrends/2010/4638/

Can order and freedom only be established through the application of violent force? Hegel has argued that „using violence“ may be the beginning of the formation of all states in history but is in no way their essential principle. It is true that order and freedom require the protection against violence and acts of force but their normative difference is not levelled off in the term „violent order“ (Gewaltordnung). There is a paradox that „lefties“ in the tradition of Nietzsche and Foucault increasingly fail to notice – the „little difference“ between power politics and order. In their reductionism of politics to power politics, „neo-cons“ and their most ardent critics have much more in common than they are aware of.