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A SARTREAN TYPOLOGY OF VIOLENT AGENTS
A SARTREAN TYPOLOGY OF VIOLENT AGENTS

Author(s): Ciprian Jeler
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Existentialism, Studies in violence and power, Phenomenology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: violence; typology; violent agent; Jean-Paul Sartre;

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides a classification of violent agents according to the manner in which they relate to their own goals. By interpreting Jean-Paul Sartre’s discussion of violence in Notebooks for an Ethics, I show that violent agents may be classified into four categories that I call “defenders of the given order,” “instruments of a higher power,” “mineralized subjects” and, finally, “unchained subjects.” I also show how each of these four categories of violent subjects represents a particular manner of, in Sartre’s words, “refusing time” or, in other terms, of refusing to change or to adjust to the situation one finds oneself in.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 7-19
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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