The Phenomenon of the Political and the Limits of Violence
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7227-2023-1-97-106
Abstract
Aim. To reveal the problem of constituting the limits of violence in the conceptual horizon of the political and related phenomena (pre-, postand over-political).
Methodology. The article uses the methodological principles and guidelines of social constructivism, hermeneutics, historical-philosophical and comparative analysis. The doctrines of Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, Karl Jaspers, which formed the basis of the study, are analyzed on the basis of the political difference (the distinction between the political and politics).
Results. The connection between the political and the forms and practices of violence that exist in society is explicated. Three conceptual axes for analyzing the limits of political violence are revealed: the semantic potential of the concept of the political is regarded in the horizon of semantically related conceptual means of analysis (pre-, postand over-political).
Research implications. The study reveals the potential of the political which is characterized by an open and transgressive existence and can solve the problem of limiting violence.
About the Author
N. A. Balakleets
Samara State Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natalia A. Balakleets – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities
ul. Molodogvardeyskaya 244, Samara 443100
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