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The Age of Violence: The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia

The Age of Violence: The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia

by Alain Bertho (Author)

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Synopsis

Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration. Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the 'radicalization of' Islam'? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Publisher: Verso
Published: 02 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1786637472
ISBN 13: 9781786637475

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An important and iconoclastic intervention into the ongoing debate on the planetary mutation in the forms of collective action. Bertho surveys, with an anthropologist's eye, the myriad phenomena of political violence criss-crossing our world on fire-from mass riots to transnational jihadism-to diagnose an irreversible divorce between peoples and powers. Age of Violence challenges us to imagine what future shapes radicalism will take outside the classical nexus of state and revolution. - Alberto Toscano, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea
Author Bio
Alain Bertho is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of Paris 8. He works particularly on urban mobilisations and riots across the world. His previous books include L'Etat de guerre (La Dispute, 2003), Nous-autres, nous-memes. Ethnographie politique du present (Le Croquant, 2007) and Le Temps des emeutes (Bayard, 2009).