Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020).

What is it to be nonviolent in political activity? Most ethics allow for self-defense, but Judith has a problem with defining "self" as well as "violence," and offers a full critique of the individualism that underlies typical Western approaches to both ethics and politics.

Mark, Seth, and Wes interview Judith about these issues and the connection to Gender Trouble.

End song: "Dancing with Death," discussed on Nakedly Examined Music #111 with Marty Willson-Piper.

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0:00.0	Get up and at it. That's my mother used to say.
0:03.0	Get moving. Get your skate song.
0:07.0	Get your hair done in the race run.
0:10.0	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.0	Get picking up.
0:14.0	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:19.0	Get deliveries done.
0:21.0	And get home to see mom.
0:24.0	Whatever the mission, enterprise rent a car helps over 100,000 every day.
0:30.0	Music
0:37.0	You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.
0:44.0	Our question for episode 236 is something like, how can we just understand a political ethic of non-violence?
0:50.0	And we're talking with Judith Butler today about her new book, The Force of Non-violence and Ethical Political Bind.
0:55.0	For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:58.0	This is Mark Linson-Mire, whose calm presence here today is thanks entirely to my rage murdering Super-Ego in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:05.0	This is Seth Pax.
1:07.0	I'm so nervous.
1:10.0	You're going to say Seth Paxifist?
1:12.0	No, no, no, no. I was not going to say Seth Paxifist. I'm just so nervous right now.
1:16.0	Oh, well, there's no reason to be nervous.
1:19.0	No, yes. You say that.
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