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This book has problematized the comfortable and comforting bedrock of Weberian categories. It has done so on the grounds that we have learnt so much about violence since Weber wrote, that we do not have to rely on them to find a basis for ‘order’. Nor do we need to privilege a politics which guarantees ‘order’ through the ‘ordering’ of violence rather than what I call it’s ‘designification’. We could choose to rethink violence as a phenomenon and why the meanings it bears and generates have such potency for our individual and collective subjectivities, and in turn ‘order’ politics through the State and define the ‘political’. A better understanding of these meanings could give us tools for interrupting the reproduction of violence and make it possible to imagine a politics without violence. This is what I call a process of ‘Emotional Enlightenment’.
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I owe this insight to my former colleague Dr. Ute Kelly, at Bradford University’s Peace Studies Department.
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Pearce, J. (2020). Conclusion: Emotional Enlightenment and a Politics without Violence. In: Politics without Violence?. Rethinking Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26082-8_11
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