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The subversive potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘defamiliarisation’: a case study in drawing on the imagination to denounce violence

In his later years, Leo Tolstoy wrote numerous books, essays and pamphlets expounding his newly-articulated denunciations of all political violence, whether by dissidents or ostensibly legitimate states. If these writings have inspired many later pacifists and anarchists, it is partly thanks to his...

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Main Author:	Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Political science not elsewhere classified Philosophy not elsewhere classified Anarchism Defamiliarisation Pacifism Tolstoy Violence Political Science not elsewhere classified Philosophy
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25365
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