Education as/against cruelty: On Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility

The issue of violence and strategies for its attenuation present perennial conundrums for those seeking to reduce the quantity of avoidable suffering in the world. Despite the best efforts of committed practitioners, activists, and scholars, violence its various forms remain rife at all levels of so...

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Published in:Educational philosophy and theory 2019-05, Vol.51 (6), p.640-649
Main Author: Siang Low, Remy Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Balibar (E)
Balibar, Etienne (1942- )
Civility
Critical theory
Cruelty
Educational philosophy
Eradication
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Politics
Role of Education
Social life & customs
Sociocultural factors
Sociocultural patterns
Study and teaching
Violence
Violence
political philosophy
critical education
Etienne Balibar
violent extremism
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Summary:The issue of violence and strategies for its attenuation present perennial conundrums for those seeking to reduce the quantity of avoidable suffering in the world. Despite the best efforts of committed practitioners, activists, and scholars, violence its various forms remain rife at all levels of social life. Paradoxically and tragically, at times, the proliferation of violence accompanies those very efforts aimed at its eradication or resolution. Education - understood in its narrower sense as a set of formal institutions as well in its broader sense as a ubiquitous sociocultural process - is perhaps exemplary of this paradox, being cast variously as a cause or instrument of violence on the one hand, and as a panacea to violence on the other. In this essay review of Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility: On the limits of political philosophy (2016), I draw on the author's imaginative attempt to theorise the relationship between different forms of violence and link this to existing scholarship on violence more broadly, and studies that consider the role of education within economies of violence more specifically.
ISSN:0013-1857
1469-5812
1469-5812
DOI:10.1080/00131857.2018.1507819