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Abu Ghraib prison 155–57 , 156n45 , 156n47 , 156n49 , 157n50
active resistance 74–80 , 133
activism 7 , 62 , 76 , 84
Addams, Jane 32
Adorno, Theodor 15 , 145 , 148–49
African Americans
anger of 75–76
churches of 73–74
in Civil Rights Movement 66 , 69–74 , 85
Indian colonialism and 72
philosophical pacifism, Thurman and 3 , 65–70
in South 72–74
Aggression-Defense paradigm, in Just War Theory 115–16
agonistic democracy 29
ahimsa 66–69 , 66n7 , 71 , 83 , 102
Alien Tort Statute (ats) 156nn48–49 , 157n51
Allport, Gordon 7
Althusser, Louis 19
Ambrose, Nancy 66
“American Civilization” (Emerson) 30–31
American Transcendentalists 28 , 31
Améry, Jean 153
Angell, Stephen W. 65
anger 74–76
anti-intellectualism 192–93 , 197–98
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter) 197–98
antiviolence 19–20 , 22–23
Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault) 92
Arendt, Hannah 23
Aristotle 205–8 , 206n8
artes liberales 207 , 221 , 224–25
artes serviles 207 , 221
Arvanitis, Agni Vlavianos 95
ats. See Alien Tort Statute
Auschwitz 133
authoritarianism 35
Autobiography (Gandhi) 31
Bailey, Sue 71 , 83–84
Baldwin, James 75–76
Baldwin, Lewis 73–74 , 85
Balibar, Étienne 9 , 12 , 19–23
Ballou, Adin 31
banality of evil 23
Banneker, Benjamin 65
Barnett, Victoria 134–35
Battell, Albert 138
Baum, Steven K. 132 , 135 , 139
Baxter, Kimberly 5–6
Beccaria, Cesare 146n14 , 159
on capital punishment 146–49 , 147n17
on expressivism, of punishment 151–52
on human dignity 150–51
Kant and 146–50
on pain, of punishment 149–50
on social contract theory 151–52
on torture 144 , 147 , 150
Becker, Lawrence 62–63
the beloved community 80–84
Benhabib, Seila 235
Bentham, Jeremy 91 , 149
Bernstein, J.M. 150–51 , 153nn37–38 , 161
Bhagavad-Gita 52–53 , 57–59 , 84
Bhakti movement 4 , 100–102 , 108–9
Bharatiya Janta Party (bjp) 99
Bhitai 104–5
biopolitics 4 , 91 , 94–98
bjp. See Bharatiya Janta Party
Blackburn, Simon 212
Black Fire (Weaver, Kriese and Angell) 65
“Black Power, A Basic Understanding” (Rodney) 78–79
Blow, Charles M. 190 , 195n58
Blumenberg, Hans 215–16
Bosmajian, Haig 12
Boudreaux, Pierre-Luc 206n8
Buber, Martin 210n25
Bulleh Shah, Baba 105–6
Burrow, Rufus 80
Bush, George W. 158 , 165 , 246
Bystanders (Barnett) 134–35
bystanders, in genocide 134–40
caci International Inc. 155–57 , 156n45 , 156n49 , 157n50
Camus, Albert 17–18
Canada 218–19 , 218n53
Canguilhem, Georges 93
capax universi 222–23
capitalism 236–37
capital punishment 146–49 , 147n17 , 152n32
categorical imperative 145–46 , 148
Center for Constitutional Rights 155–57 , 156n45
Césaire, Aimé 114
Chesterton, G.K. 210
China 175
Chomsky, Noam 244
Christianity 66–67 , 72–74 , 76 , 83–84 , 250
Christian pacifism 31
Churchill, Robert Paul 6
Churchill, Ward 43–44
cia 154–55 , 154n39 , 160n59
citizenship 20 , 240–41 , 248
civil discourse 44 , 46
civil disobedience 65 , 69 , 71
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau) 30
civility
American democracy and 27
antiviolence and 20 , 22–23
Balibar on 20–21
citizenship and 20
civilization and 30–31
in civil republic 2–3
in democracy 27–28 , 32–33 , 41–43 , 46
Dewey on 32–33
in disputes 46
in ethical democracy 30
Gandhi on 31
against injustice 24
“law and order” and 11
listening in 41
nonviolence and 31 , 41–42 , 46
peace and 43–45
political correctness and 9
rationality and 41–42
repressive tolerance and 15–19
resistance and 13–14
in social contract theory 10–12
state and 20–21
as term 9
tolerance and 9–10 , 18–19 , 24
as trump card 27
against Trumpianism 46
truth and 41 , 45
values of 28 , 41
virtue of 41–43 , 45
civilization, civility and 30–31
civil republic 2–3
civil resistance 10 , 30
Civil Rights Movement 66 , 69–74 , 85
civil society 192–96
Civil War 30–31
Clapper, James 34–35
Clinton, Hillary 37n28
coercion 13 , 155 , 155n43
cognitive psychology 164 , 177
cognitive unconscious 166 , 169–79
Cohen, Jean 244n40
Cold War 12
colonialism
biopolitics and 95–96
dehumanization in 111–12 , 114 , 120–21
Indian 72
leftist, of Memmi 121n23
matrix of power 111–15
power structures in 113–14
coloniality 4–5 , 114–15 , 117–23
A Common Faith (Dewey) 27–28 , 42
communism 40
Concerning Violence (Fanon) 123–24
Cone, James 73
conflict, peace and 123–25
conformity memes 183–89 , 194–95
conservatives 2 , 7 , 167–68 , 172–76. See also Republican Party
conspiracy theories 168
Constitution, US 144 , 158
contract theory 146. See also social contract theory
control
biopolitical 96–97
social 98
Stoicism on 50–53 , 56–62
convertibility of violence 9 , 11 , 19–24
cosmopolitanism 235 , 247–48 , 256
counterviolence 11 , 17 , 21–22
criminality 1–2 , 2n
criminology 1
Crito (Plato) 51
cruel punishments 152–53
cruelty 9 , 19 , 22–23
cry of genocide
as active resistance 133
by bystanders 137–40
choice to give 132–36
defining 127–29
as descriptive and prescriptive 128
false 136–37
the Final Solution document as 129–30
on mass and social media 130–31
as outcry 130–31
by perpetrators 132–34
retaliation against 137–38
risks of 136–40
U.N. hearing 138–39
by victims 132–34
when and why to give 129–32
cultural diversity 183–84
cultural homogeneity 6 , 185
cultural nonviolence 74
cultural violence 4 , 14 , 74
cultural war 167–69
Dadu Dayal 102
Dallmayr, Fred 248–56
Dandi Salt March 57
Dasein 251
Davis, Angela 79–80
Dawkins, Richard 6 , 181–84
Dean, Howard 167
death
Epictetus on 54
Gandhi on 53–56 , 68
of Socrates 51
death penalty 146–49 , 147n17 , 152n32
deconstruction 251
dehumanization 111–12 , 114 , 117 , 120–21 , 125
de-investment and devaluation, in public higher education 199–200
Deleuze, Gilles 93
deliberative democracy 29 , 38–39
Delius, Juan 183
Demenchonok, Edward 7–8
Deming, Barbara 18
democracy 7
agonistic 29
American, civility and 27
civility and 27–28 , 32–33 , 41–43 , 46
Dallmayr on 248–50 , 254–56
deliberative 29 , 38–39
Derrida on 235–40 , 245
différance in 240
equality and 235–36 , 239–40 , 250
ethical 28–33
faith and 27–28 , 33 , 42 , 45–46
freedom, equality and 235–36 , 239–40
incivility against 33–35
liberal 248–50
memes and mind viruses threatening 181–82
propaganda and 39
radical 235–36 , 257
rationality in 41–42
democracy to come
Dallmayr on 248–56
Derrida on 235–48 , 252
Democracy to Come (Dallmayr) 252
Democratic Party 164–65 , 167–69 , 172–73 , 175–79 , 193–94
Derrida (2002) 238
Derrida, Jacques 147n18 , 235–48 , 251–53
“Desegregation, Integration, and the Beloved Community” (Thurman) 81
Dewey, John 27–29 , 32–33 , 39 , 42 , 44 , 75
différance 240
al-Din, Hasan Muin 102
The Discarded Image (Lewis) 205
discipline 91 , 96–97
Discipline and Punish (Foucault) 92
Disciplines of the Spirit (Thurman) 79
Discourse on Colonialism (Césaire) 114
discourses 91–92 , 99–100 , 107–8
Discourses (Epictetus) 56–57
disruptive innovation 198–99
Dixie, Quinton 67–69
dogmatism-inducing memes 181 , 183
domination 91–92 , 97
Donnelly, Jack 143
Eagleman, David 191
Edsall, Thomas B. 188
education. See also liberal arts education
Canadian system of 218–19 , 218n53
government system of 16
multicultural 197 , 200
neoliberal myth in 216–17
philosophical anthropology in principles of 217–18 , 217n48 , 220
philosophy of 212
public higher 197–200
Eisenstadt, Peter 67–69
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 30–32
“The Ends of Man” (Derrida) 253
engagement, dehumanizing manners of 111–12
English language 12–15
the Enlightenment 92–93 , 249
Kant in 142–43 , 145 , 149
rationality in 142–43 , 148–49 , 169–70
reason in 145
on self-preservation 145 , 154
universal human rights in 143–44
US Constitution and 144
Enough Said (Thompson) 12
Epictetus 3 , 50–54 , 56–60
epistemes 91–92
equaliberty 21
equality 235–36 , 239–40 , 250
ethical democracy 28–33
ethics 92–93 , 142
“The Ethics of Democracy” (Dewey) 28 , 32
Eurocentrism 114 , 125
evil 23
expressivism 151–52 , 157–58 , 161
faith
democracy and 27–28 , 33 , 42 , 45–46
nonviolence and 28
pacific 28–29 , 41–42
fake news 36 , 38 , 192 , 196 , 200–201
Fanon, Frantz 17–18 , 17n26 , 78–79 , 114 , 117 , 123–24
Farmer, James 69–70
fascism 29–30 , 40
Feinberg, Joel 151n30 , 160 , 193
Fellowship of Reconciliation (for) 66 , 69
Ferguson, Andrew 198
Feygina, Irina 178
Fiala, Andrew 2–3
Fillmore, Charles 170
the Final Solution document, of Nazis 129–30
Finnström, Sverker 111n
Fluker, Walter 70 , 73 , 80–81 , 84
for. See Fellowship of Reconciliation
Foreign Claims Act of 1942 157
Foucault, Michel 123
Archaeology of Knowledge by 92
on biopolitics 4 , 91 , 94 , 96–97
Discipline and Punish by 92
on epistemes 91–92
on ethics 92–93
genealogy as method of 92
on governmentality 97–100 , 108
History of Sexuality by 92 , 94
on human sciences 90
on the individual 90–91
influence of 93–94
on object and subject, in human sciences 90–91
The Order of Things by 90
on Panopticon 91
on power-knowledge 91–92 , 97–98
on power structures 121n22
Society Must be Defended by 96
on sovereign expression of power 119
on subjectivation 91
Foy, David 153
frame analysis 6
frames 170–72 , 174–75 , 177–79
Frank, Thomas 6 , 163–64 , 166–69
freedom 79–80 , 174–75 , 206 , 235–36 , 239–40 , 243
free market 174–75 , 216
free press 35–36 , 38
free speech 2 , 193
Freire, Paulo 4 , 17 , 111 , 113n3 , 118 , 121–22 , 124
French Third Republic, in West Africa 96
Freud, Sigmund 166
Friedrich, Patricia 14–15
Fukuyama, Francis 235
Galtung, Johan 66
Gandhi, Mohandas 22
on ahimsa 66–69 , 71 , 83
Autobiography of 31
on Bhagavad-Gita 52–53 , 57–59 , 84
on civility 31
on death 53–56 , 68
Epictetus and 51–53
on faith, in nonviolence 28
against injustice 83
on Jesus 83–84
King, M.L., and 3–4 , 13 , 65 , 71–74 , 76 , 80 , 84–86
on life 84–85 , 85n56
on life's works 52
on love 71–72
on morality 55–58 , 60–61
on nonviolence 28 , 67 , 69–73 , 86
on resignation 53–54
Salt March of 57
on satyagraha 3 , 31 , 65 , 67–68 , 71–72
on self-rule 255
Socrates and 51 , 61–62 , 83
Stoicism and 51–53 , 56 , 58–61
Thurman and 3–4 , 65–71 , 73 , 75–76 , 80–81 , 83–86
Tolstoy and 31
Garrison, William Lloyd 31
Gay, William 2 , 194
Geist 223
Geisteswissenschaften 203–7 , 210n24 , 221–26
genealogy 92
genocide. See also cry of genocide
bystanders in 134–40
as crime against humanity 128–29
culture and 128
against ethnic groups 128–29
Holocaust as 129–30 , 132–35 , 138
in international law 127–28
Lemkin on 5
mass murder versus 136–37
nonviolent diplomacy against 131
perpetrators of 132–36 , 139
R2D against 130–31
in Rwanda 135
sterilization in 128–29
U.N. on 127–31 , 138–39 , 143
victims of 132–36
“The Genocide of the Palestinian People” (Papp’e) 136–37
Genocide Prevention Task Force 138–40
germ theory 96
geschehendes Sein 223–24
Glaude, Eddie 75–76
Global South 114–15
Goffman, Erving 6 , 170
Gold, Jeffrey 181 , 183–85 , 192 , 196–97 , 200
Gonzales, Alberto 144n8
Gough, J.W. 146
government
educational system of 16
political economy of 98–99
social contract theory and 146
torture by U.S., after 9/11 153–56 , 160
governmentality 92 , 97–100 , 108
Grant, Sandy 54–55 , 60–61
“Great Books” movement 225 , 225n82
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant) 149
Guantánamo 153
Gursozlu, Fuat 21
Hakeem, Farrukh 4
Hampton, Jean 150–51
Haspel, Gina 160n59
hate 74–78 , 77n36 , 83 , 165–66 , 169
hate speech 13–14
Hegel, G.W.F. 22 , 113n4
Heidegger, Martin 251 , 253
Heidenrich, John G. 131
Hempel, Carl 90
Heretics (Chesterton) 210
Hinduism 100 , 102 , 106
Hinton, Alexander 5 , 140
History of Sexuality (Foucault) 92 , 94
Hitler, Adolf 190 , 192
Hobbes, Thomas 10
Hodgkinson, James 195 , 196
Hofstadter, Richard 197–98
Holocaust 129–30 , 132–35 , 138 , 151
homo economicus 216–20 , 217n49 , 219n55 , 223 , 250
hooks, bell 14–15
hope 27–28 , 41 , 256–57
horizontality and verticality 242
Horkheimer, Max 15 , 145 , 148–49
How to Prevent Genocide (Heidenrich) 131
human beings 222–24
human dignity 142–43 , 143n4 , 148 , 150–51 , 161
humanistic notions 234
the humanities 199–200. See also liberal arts education
human nature, social justice and 214–15 , 214n39
human rights
in democracy to come 240
human dignity in 143
in immigration 247
Rawls on 159–60
social contract theory and 142
universal 143–44 , 150
U.N. on 143 , 247
in wartime 160
human sciences 90–94 , 97
Humphrey, N.K. 182
Hutus 135
hyper-polarization 188 , 192 , 196 , 201
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J. 211–12
icrc. See International Committee of the Red Cross
ideological homogeneity 181 , 183 , 185
illusion-of-truth effect 191
immigration 247–48
immoral acts 58–59
incivility
against democracy 33–35
in international relations 40
of public discourse 34
of Trump 27 , 33–40 , 37n28
as trump card 33–40
truth and 35–38
India 72 , 99–104
the individual 90–91 , 98
injustice
civility against 24
Gandhi against 83
social 23–24
theories about 234
Thurman on 68
violence against 16–18
instrumental reason 145
integration 81–83
International Committee of the Red Cross (icrc) 155 , 155n44
international law 127–28 , 159–60 , 245–47
international relationships 40 , 243 , 257
interventionism 115–16 , 115n13
intolerance 192–94
Ionesco, Eugène 185–89
Islam 102–7
Israelis 136–37
Jainism 66–67
Jensen, Kipton 3–4
Jessen, Bruce 154–55 , 154n41
Jesus and the Disinherited (Thurman) 77
Jesus Christ 77–78 , 83–84
Jews, in Holocaust 129–30 , 133–35 , 138
Johnson, Mordecai 65
Jones, Lawrence N. 80
justice 14–15 , 234–36. See also social justice
Just War Theory 4
Aggression-Defense paradigm in 115–16
colonialism and 111–12
liberal humanitarian 112 , 113n5 , 115–23
liberation of the oppressed in 111–13 , 117–19 , 121–23
nonviolence and 112
on wars of intervention 115 , 115n13
Kabir 101
Kang, Cecilia 195
Kant, Immanuel 5–6 , 22 , 42 , 92–93 , 209
Beccaria and 146–50
on capital punishment 146–48 , 152n32
on categorical imperative 145–46
contract theory of 146
Derrida on 147n18
in the Enlightenment 142–43 , 145 , 149
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by 149
on human dignity 142–43 , 148 , 150–51
on rationality 142–43
Rawls on 159
on reason 142–43 , 145–47
on right 243
on torture 152
on will 146–47
Keltner, Dacher 171
khöra 240 , 242
Kim Jong-Un 40 , 40n33 , 194
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
on the beloved community 84
on Civil Rights Movement 72
on Fanon 78
Gandhi and 3–4 , 13 , 65 , 71–74 , 76 , 80 , 84–86
on hate 77–78
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by 72
on love 78 , 80
on nonviolence 71 , 73–74 , 80 , 86
on nonviolent active resistance 74–80
Strength to Love by 76–77
Thurman and 70–80 , 72n25 , 84–87
Where Do We Go from Here by 80
King, Preston 65–66 , 74
The Kingdom of God is Within You (Tolstoy) 31
Kingdom of Heaven 72 , 80–84
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. 2013 156 , 156n48
Kiriakou, John 154n39
Kjellen, Rudolf 94
Klemperer, Victor 189–91
knowledge
democratization of 177–78
governmentality 98
in liberal arts 205–6
natural sciences and 90
scientific 210–11
Koninck, Charles de 210n25
Kony, Joseph 119
Kovaleski, Serge F. 38
Kriese, Paul 65
L-3 Services 156n45
La Fontaine, Jean de 243
Lakoff, George 169 , 171–73 , 177–78
Lal, Sanjay 3
Lamar, Merabow 200
language 12–15 , 229
Language, Negotiation and Peace (Friedrich) 14–15
Latif, Shah Abdul 104
law 127–28 , 146–48 , 158–60 , 243 , 245–47
law and order 11 , 16
The Law of Peoples (Rawls) 159–60 , 159n54
Lawson, James 46 , 68 , 70
“Lectures on Liberation” (Davis) 79
legitimacy, in social contract theory 10–12
Leibniz, Gottfried 250
Leisure (Pieper) 209 , 221–22
Lemkin, Raphael 5 , 127–29 , 138
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King, M.L.) 72
Levi, Primo 133
Levin, Jack 7
Lewis, C.S. 205 , 210n25
Lewy, Guenter 133–34
liberal arts education 7 , 181–82 , 197 , 203–4
challenges to 207–15
consequences to rejecting 215–21
knowledge in 205–6
as leisure 207–9
as meaningful-in-itself 222
as non-practical 207
philosophical anthropology in 222–23 , 225–26
philosophy in 206–7
Pieper on 221–29
policy 213–14
scientism against 209–12
social justice and 230–31
liberal democracy 248–50
liberal humanitarianism 112 , 113n5 , 115–23
liberalism 29
liberals 167–68 , 172–73 , 177–79
liberation 79–80
of the oppressed 111–13 , 117–19 , 121–23
lies 189–90 , 195n58
life 84–85 , 85n56 , 148
Lincoln, Abraham 249
linguistic justice 14–15
linguistic nonviolence 14
linguistic violence 13–14 , 24 , 194–95
Lippman, Walter 39
Livingston, Alexander 21–22
Locke, John 10
logical positivism 209–11 , 210n24
Long, A.A. 51
love 71–72 , 76–78 , 80 , 83–84
Love or Perish (sermon) (Thurman) 77n36
Luminous Darkness (Thurman) 66
Lutseva, Svetlana 209
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson 115
man. See the individual
Mandelssohn, Moses 92–93
Manicheanism 117
Marchetti, Raffaele 235
Marcuse, Herbert 2 , 9 , 12 , 15–19 , 22–23
Marx, Karl 19–20
Marxism 93
mass media 130–31
mass murder 136–37
Mauthausen concentration camp 134–35
May, Todd 13 , 22
McAdams, Dan 170
memes
complexes of 184
conformity 183–89 , 194–95
dangerous 189–91
Dawkins on 6 , 181–84
dogmatism-inducing 181 , 183
in homogeneity 6 , 181 , 183 , 185
lies as 189–90
as mind viruses 6–7 , 181–85 , 189–96
neuroscience on 181–83
shamanistic incantation for spreading 190–91
transmission of 183–84
tyranny and 6 , 181
Memmi, Albert 121n23 , 122
Metaphysics (Aristotle) 205–6 , 206n8
Metcalfe, Bryan 203 , 215–20 , 226 , 230
Mexico 40 , 40n32
Middle Ages 97 , 99
Mignolo, Walter 114
militarism 4–5 , 33
Mills, C. Wright 1
mind viruses
intolerance 192–94
linguistic violence 194–95
memes as 6–7 , 181–85 , 189–96
in physical violence 195–96
propaganda for spreading 185–86
resistance to 200
rhinoceroses hosting 185–89 , 192–96
Minnich, Elizabeth 23
Mitchell, James 154–55 , 154n41
Mitchell, Mozella 79
Montesquieu, Charles Baron de 250
moral frames 172 , 178
morality
Gandhi on 55–58 , 60–61
Stoicism and 57–61
Moss, Otis 86
Mouffe, Chantal 29–30
multicultural education 197 , 200
Murphy, James 190
myths 215–18
naacp. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
narratives
of conservatives 173–74
frames and 170 , 172
Naseem, M. Ayaz 211–12
Nash, Anne Steere 65
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) 85–86
National Emergencies Act of 1976 158 , 158n53
National Institute for Civil Discourse (nicd) 37n28
National Urban League (nul) 85–86
natural sciences 90
Nazism 15 , 32 , 94–95 , 129–30 , 132–34 , 151 , 185–86
nccit. See North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture
Neither Victims Nor Executioners (Camus) 17–18
neoconservatism 235
neoliberal governmentality 98
neoliberal myth 216–18 , 218n53
neuroscience 164 , 170–73 , 177 , 181–83
nicd. See National Institute for Civil Discourse
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle) 208 , 221
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1 , 39 , 77 , 80 , 93 , 122n25
nihilism 76–77
nonviolence
as active resistance 74–80
ahimsa as 66–69 , 66n7 , 71 , 83 , 102
antiviolence and 22
in Bhakti movement 102
civility and 31 , 41–42 , 46
in Civil Rights Movement 85
coercive 13
cultural 74
cultural violence and 74
diplomacy, against genocide 131
in ethical democracy 30
faith and 28
Gandhi on 28 , 67 , 69–73 , 86
Just War Theory and 112
King, M.L., on 71 , 73–74 , 80 , 86
linguistic 14
pacifism and 18 , 27 , 31
passivity and 17–18 , 17n26 , 22 , 49
political language and 13
power of 80 , 84
in resistance 55–63 , 65–66 , 72
Sartre on 17–18 , 17n26
satyagraha as 3 , 31 , 65 , 67–68 , 71–72
in social protest 10
Stoicism and 3 , 49–53
of Sufis 103 , 105
Thurman on 65–66 , 74–80 , 84 , 86
violence and 2–4 , 22 , 74 , 85
“Non-violence” (King, M.L.) 71
Nordstrom, Carolyn 118 , 120–21
North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture (nccit) 157n52
nul. See National Urban League
Nussbaum, Martha 54–55
Obama, Barack 160n59
obedience 173–74
object, subject and 90–91
objectivity 44–45 , 91
On Crimes and Punishments (Beccaria) 150
“On Revolution and Equilibrium” (Deming) 18
On Tyranny (Snyder) 189
the oppressed 69 , 111–13 , 113n3 , 117–25
oppression 69 , 119–20 , 120n19 , 124–25
The Order of Things (Foucault) 90
Ordine, Nuccio 219–20 , 226
original position, of Rawls 159 , 234
Orwell, George 12–14
the other 238 , 240 , 242 , 247–48
pacific faith 28–29 , 41–42
pacifism
of African Americans 3 , 65–70
Christian 31
Churchill, W., on 43–44
nonviolence and 18 , 27 , 31
on violence 66
pain, in punishment 149–50
Palestinians 136–37
Panopticon 91
Papp’e, Ilan 136–37
partisanship 177
passivity 17–18 , 17n26 , 22 , 49 , 55
paternalistic family structure 173–74
Paul (saint) 67 , 72
peace 22 , 43–46 , 123–25
Pedagogy of Mythos (Metcalfe) 203 , 214
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire) 4 , 17 , 113n3
Pence, Mike 37n26
perpetual peace 22
Phillips, Joshua E.S. 153
philosophical anthropology 213–14
in educational principles 217–18 , 217n48 , 220
in liberal arts 222–23 , 225–26
social justice and 203–4 , 221 , 229–30
philosophical pacifism 3 , 65–70
philosophy 206–7 , 227–28
Pieper, Josef 203 , 209 , 213n35 , 221–30 , 225n82
Pizzagate 195–96
Plato 51 , 205 , 228–30 , 242
politeness 9–10 , 15 , 18 , 24
political activism 76
political correctness 2 , 9 , 14
political economy 98–99
political frames 172 , 178
The Political Mind (Lakoff) 169
political resistance. See resistance
politics. See also Democratic Party; Republican Party
cognitive neurosciences in 164
language of 12–14
money in 249
morality and 57–58
partisanship in 177
as relational praxis 249
Stoicism and 58 , 61–63
tragic dimension of 23
truth and 39
violence and 19 , 22–23 , 99–100
voting and 61–62
“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell) 12–13
poor and working class whites, Republicans and 6 , 163–76
positivism 90 , 209–11 , 251–52
post-9/11 era 5
Post-Liberalism (Dallmayr) 249
power
biopolitics 96
colonial matrix of 111–15
governmentality and 98
love and 80
of nonviolence 80 , 84
science and 91
sovereign expression of 119
structures 113–14 , 120–21 , 121n22
violence, war and 118 , 120–21
violence and 22 , 80 , 99–100
power-knowledge 4 , 91–92 , 97–98
pragmatism 42 , 44
prejudice 7
problematization 92–93
Proclamation 7463—Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks 158
propaganda 39 , 185–86
The Psychology of Genocide (Baum) 132
ptsd 153
The Public and Its Problems (Dewey) 39
public discourse 34 , 37n28
public higher education 197–200
public language 12
Public Opinion (Lippman) 39
punishment
capital 146–49 , 147n17 , 152n32
cruel 152–53
expressive 151–52 , 151n30 , 157–58
pain of 149–50
Punjabi literature 105–6
quietism 54
Quijano, Aníbal 114
R2D. See right to defend
Raboteau, Albert 70 , 86
racial oppression 69
racism 34
radical democracy 235–36 , 257
Randolph, A. Philip 69
rape 152
rationality 41–43 , 142–43 , 148–49 , 169–70
Rawls, John 159–60 , 159n54 , 234
reason 142–43 , 145–47 , 169
reflexive thinking 169
reformative discourse, Sufi 107–8
reformism 91
reframing 178–79
Rehman, Rashad 7
Reitter, Hans 94–95
relational praxis 249 , 255
relationism 250
relativism 44
religion 99–100 , 242–43
religious experience 73–74 , 76
repressive tolerance 2 , 9 , 15–19 , 22–23
Republican Party
Democratic Party and 164–65 , 167–69 , 172–73 , 175–79 , 193–94
frames of 174–75
on free market 174–75
on liberals 167–68
nationalistic messaging by 6
poor and working class whites and 6 , 163–76
tribalism of 188
resignation 49 , 53–55
resistance
active 74–80 , 133
civility and 10 , 13–14 , 30
to conformity memes 186–88
to genocide, by bystanders 139–40
against injustice 24
to mind viruses 200
nonviolent 55–63 , 65–66 , 72
by Sindhi saints 104–5
Stoicism and 54–55 , 57–59 , 61
to uncivil speech 2
violence and 9–10 , 17 , 21 , 23
Rhinoceros (Ionesco) 185–89
rhinoceroses 181 , 185–89 , 192–96
Rich, Adrienne 14
Ricoeur, Paul 23
right to defend (R2D) 130–31
Rodney, Walter 78–79 , 85
Rogues (Derrida) 238 , 243 , 252–53
rogue states 244 , 244n40
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 10–11 , 146n14
Rustin, Bayard 70–71
Rwanda 135
Salt March 57
Sandefer, Jeff 198–99
Sands, Philippe 154n39
Sapolsky, Robert 171–73
Sartre, Jean-Paul 17–18 , 17n26 , 79
satyagraha 3 , 31 , 65 , 67–68 , 71–72. See also nonviolence
Schmitt, Carl 246
science
human 90–94 , 97
knowledge and 210–11
natural 90
power and 91
social 94 , 96
scientism 7 , 209–12 , 225
Scientism and Education (Hyslop-Margison and Naseem) 211–12
sclc. See Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Scott, James 194
Search for Common Ground (Thurman) 68
segregation 81 , 81n48
The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) 181–82
self-preservation 145 , 154
self-respect 69
self-rule 255
sere training 155
sexism 34
sexuality 92
shamanistic incantation, of memes 190–91
Shanks, Niall 181 , 183–85 , 192 , 196–97 , 200
Sikhism 100 , 102 , 106
Sindhi resistance saints 104–5
slavery 79–80
Smith, Luther 66–67
Smith, Steven A. 53
Smithka, Paula 6–7
Snyder, Timothy 189–91
social contract theory 5–6
Beccaria on 151–52
civility and legitimacy in 10–12
expressivism in 161
government and 146
human rights and 142
laws and 158 , 160
Rawls on 159–60
state in 152
torture and 155 , 157–58 , 157n52
social control 98
social injustice 23–24
social justice 9 , 20 , 205 , 214–15 , 214n39
liberal arts and 230–31
philosophical anthropology and 203–4 , 221 , 229–30
Thurman on 80–81
social media 7 , 130–31
social sciences 94 , 96
Society Must be Defended (Foucault) 96
Socrates 39 , 51 , 60–62 , 83
solidarity 122
Sophist (Plato) 205 , 228–29
sophistry 203–5 , 228–29
Sorabji, Richard 57 , 60
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (sclc) 70–71
sovereignty 119 , 243–46
The Spirit of Laws (Montesquieu) 250
state
biopolitics of 94–95
civility and 20–21
convertibility of violence by 21–22
counterviolence by 22
governmentality and 98–99
power-knowledge of 4
rogue 244 , 244n40
in social contract theory 152
sovereignty and 243–46
violence by 2 , 2n , 11–12 , 19–20 , 150
sterilization 128–29
Stoicism
on control 50–53 , 56–62
emotions in 62–63
Epictetus on 3 , 50–54 , 56–60
Gandhi and 51–53 , 56 , 58–61
on immoral acts 58–59
morality and 57–61
nonviolence and 3 , 49–53
politics and 58 , 61–63
resistance and 54–55 , 57–59 , 61
Trump and 56 , 59 , 61
Streep, Meryl 37n27
Strength to Love (King, M.L.) 76–77
structural oppression 120 , 120n19 , 124–25
structural violence 20 , 122
subjectivation 91–92 , 97–98
subjunctive modality 234–35
Sub-Saharan Africa 111
Sufi movement 4 , 102–9
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape (sere) training 155
Teaching to Transgress (Rich) 14
Tesón, Fernando 116 , 116n15
Theodoridis, Alex 188 , 192
Third Reich 15
Thomas Aquinas (saint) 209 , 223–24
Thompson, Mark 12
Thoreau, Henry David 30–32
Thurman, Howard
as African American philosophical pacifist 3 , 65–70
on the beloved community 81–83
on civil disobedience 69
Civil Rights Movement and 66 , 69–74
“Desegregation, Integration, and the Beloved Community” by 81
Disciplines of the Spirit by 79
in for 66
Gandhi and 3–4 , 65–71 , 73 , 75–76 , 80–81 , 83–86
on hate 76–78 , 77n36
on integration 81–83
Jesus and the Disinherited by 77
King, M.L., and 70–80 , 72n25 , 84–87
on love 77–78 , 83–84
Love or Perish sermon by 77n36
Luminous Darkness by 66
on nonviolence 65–66 , 84 , 86
on nonviolent active resistance 74–80
Search for Common Ground by 68
social justice approach of 80–81
on violence 75 , 75n32 , 78
Timaeus (Plato) 242
Titan Corporation 157
tolerance
civility and 9–10 , 18–19 , 24
politeness and 9–10 , 15 , 24
repressive 2 , 9 , 15–19 , 22–23
social justice and 9
of violence 16
Tolstoy, Leo 31–32
torture 144n8
at Abu Ghraib 155–56 , 156n45 , 156n47 , 156n49 , 157n50
Beccaria on 144 , 147 , 150
Bernstein on 150–51 , 153nn37–38
coercion by 155 , 155n43
Kant on 152
nccit on 157n52
ptsd from 153
social contract theory and 155 , 157–58 , 157n52
ticking time bomb scenario in justifying 154n39
by U.S. government, after 9/11 153–56 , 160
totalitarianism 29–30
tragedy 23–24
tribalism 188–89 , 196
Trudeau, Justin 40
Trump, Donald 2 , 178
on China 175
civility against 46
Clinton and 37n28
on free press 35–36 , 38
Haspel appointment by 160n59
incivility of 27 , 33–40 , 37n28
on Kim 40 , 40n33 , 194
on Kovaleski 38
lies of 189–90 , 195n58
linguistic violence by 194–95
opponents of 33–34
poor whites for 6
Proclamation 7463 signed by 158
relativism of 44
on sovereignty 246
Stoicism and 56 , 59 , 61
Streep and 37n27
tyranny and 185 , 192
truth 35–41 , 45 , 83 , 191 , 206
Tutsis 135
Twenty Years at Hull House (Addams) 32
tyranny 6 , 181 , 185 , 189 , 192 , 196–201
Uganda 111n1 , 119
ultraobjective and ultrasubjective violence 19 , 22–23
U.N. See United Nations
uncivil speech 2 , 9
unconscious cognitive processes 166 , 169–79
United Nations (U.N.)
on genocide 127–31 , 138–39 , 143
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 143 , 247
universal human rights 143–44 , 150
The Usefulness of the Useless (Ordine) 219–20
utilitarianism 149 , 154n39 , 207–8 , 218 , 218n52 , 220–21
verticality, horizontality and 242
violence
antiviolence and 19–20 , 22–23
convertibility of 9 , 11 , 19–24
counterviolence and 11 , 17 , 21–22
criminality and 1–2
cruelty and 9 , 19 , 22–23
cultural 4 , 14 , 74
Dewey on 33
Fanon on 17–18
hate and 74–78 , 83
human behavior and 1
against injustice 16–18
law and 243
linguistic 13–14 , 24 , 194–95
nonviolence and 2–4 , 22 , 74 , 85
oppression and 119–20 , 125
pacifists on 66
physical, mind viruses in 195–96
politics and 19 , 22–23 , 99–100
power, war and 118 , 120–21
power and 22 , 80 , 99–100
racial oppression, and fear of 69
against rationality 42–43
resistance and 9–10 , 17 , 21 , 23
by state 2 , 2n , 11–12 , 19–20 , 150
structural 20 , 122
Thurman on 75 , 75n32 , 78
tolerance of 16
ultraobjective and ultrasubjective 19 , 22–23
Wright on 76
Violence and Civility (Balibar) 19
virtue, of civility 41–43 , 45
Vorobej, Mark 74
voting 61–62 , 163–64 , 166–69 , 239
Walker, James 4–5
war. See also Just War Theory
of intervention 115–16 , 115n13
violence, power and 118 , 120–21
well-ordered peoples in 159–60
Warburton, Nigel 54 , 60–61
the wealthy 171–72
Weaver, Harold D. 65
Welch, Edgar 195–96
well-ordered peoples 159–60
West Africa 96
Western militarism 4–5
“What is Enlightenment?” (Kant) 142
What’s the Matter with Kansas? (Frank) 6 , 163–64 , 166–67
Where Do We Go from Here (King, M.L.) 80
Whipper, William 65
white nationalism 7
white supremacy 14
will 146–47
Wilson, Paul 5
words, language and 229
The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon) 17–18 , 79 , 114
Wright, Richard 75–76
Young, Iris Marion 120 , 120n19
Zakaria, Fareed 192–94
Zvonovskii, Vladmir 209

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Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice

Series:  Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 342, Philosophy of Peace, Volume: 342, and Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 342
Cover Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice
E-Book ISBN:
9789004417588
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
11 Nov 2019
  • Subjects
    • Philosophy
      • Ethics & Moral Philosophy
      • Social & Political Philosophy
    • Social Sciences
      • Critical Social Sciences
      • Economics & Political Science
Front Matter
Value Inquiry Book Series
Copyright Page
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Language of Civility and Resistance: A Critique of Tolerance and Violence
Chapter 2 Civility, Ethical Democracy, and the Pacific Faith
Chapter 3 Gandhi, Epictetus, and Political Resistance
Chapter 4 Howard Thurman and the African American Nonviolence Tradition
Chapter 5 Contesting Religious Governmentality: The Bhakti-Sufi Movements of Medieval India
Chapter 6 Decolonizing Paradigms of Normative Evaluation: The Coloniality of Just War Theory
Chapter 7 Cry “Genocide!” for All the Good It Will Do
Chapter 8 The Enlightenment’s Post-9/11 Legacy
Chapter 9 Why Do Poor Whites Vote for Republicans When Republicans Hate Them?
Chapter 10 How Mind Viruses and Rhinoceroses Promote Tyranny
Chapter 11 Josef Pieper’s Defense of the Geisteswissenschaften
Chapter 12 The Quest for Genuine Democracy: A Promise of Democracy to Come
Back Matter
Index

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