„Livability” and “Nonviolence” towards The Other in Judith Butler’s Force of Nonviolence

Abstract

In her relatively new book, Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler develops her former outlines of approaches towards violence and their interconnections with social and political conditions of social identity. Presented paper tries to disclose these outlines and their interconnections as well as their continuation in conceptualization of violence in works of Walter Benjamin. Special focus in aimed on Butler´ inspirations in Melanie Klein and Jacqueline Rose. Desired goal of the paper is to show language conditioning in understanding violence and its specificities due to frames of language, from which this phenomenon can be interpreted.