Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, Band 2, Social and Political Philosophy

Editor list: McBride, W

Publication year: 2006

Pages: 257-262

ISBN: 978-975-7748-34-2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.5840/wcp2120062123

Abstract: 
Anti-essentialism, antiuniversalism, anti-foundationalism,
fragmentation of subjectivity, pluralization of truths are feared to
entail the danger of forfeiture of possibilities for critical counter
discourses. But the deconstruction of categories is not inevitably the
death of politics; rather, the postmodernist intervention of canonical
power /knowledge alliances facilitates the recovery of "other"
strategies of resistance concerning world problems from
"nonconventional" sources that have hitherto been invalidated by
mainstream discourses. Thus the crisis triggered by postmodern critique
could hold immense opportunities for new configurations of politics to
emerge through micro-politics of permanent resistance and
diversification of discourses of subversion. Political activism today
stands in a complicated parasitical relationship of debt and defiance
vis-ä-vis the postmodernist discourse, which, despite many shortcomings,
does offer possibilities of thinking the "Other". To this end, I seek
to go back into the history of philosophy and reclaim tools of
resistance from "different" cultural contexts to revitalize and
re-imagine our oppositional practices in the present. This paper
attempts to experiment with the concept of non-violence [Ahimsa) as
conceptualized within the Indian philosophical tradition.

Harvard Citation style: Dhawan, N. (2006) On the (Im)possibility of Non-Violent Resistance in Violent Times : The Politics of Ahimsa, in McBride, W. (ed.) The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, Band 2, Social and Political Philosophy. Istandbul, pp. 257-262. https://doi.org/10.5840/wcp2120062123

APA Citation style: Dhawan, N. (2006). On the (Im)possibility of Non-Violent Resistance in Violent Times : The Politics of Ahimsa. In McBride, W. (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, Band 2, Social and Political Philosophy (pp. 257-262). https://doi.org/10.5840/wcp2120062123