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Perhaps nonviolence requires a certain leave-taking from reality: Judith Butler on Non-violence

August 1, 2022 Art, culture, Philosophy, Politics

”Indeed, when the world presents as a force field of violence, the task of nonviolence is to find ways of living and acting in that world such that violence is checked or ameliorated, or its direction turned, precisely at moments when it seems to saturate that world and offer no way out. The body can…

There is no view from nowhere, but there is something viewed!

November 13, 2017 Philosophy, Science, Theory

“The point, for Hilary Putnam (HP), is that neither James, nor pragmatism generally speaking, is committed to anti-realism, if that means a rejection of a reality that is external to agents, or committed to truth as subjective or mere expediency (or “whatever works”). Rather, for HP (and James), truth is not a dyadic relation between…

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