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In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over fifty years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption...

Новая книга Джудит Батлер показывает, что этика ненасилия должна быть связана с более широкой политической борьбой за социальное равенство. Батлер вводит понятие «оплакиваемые и неоплакиваемые жизни», через призму которого описывает, как и когда ненасилие может рассматриваться как враждебность и повлечь за собой применение силы. Автор утверждает, что существует расхождение во мнениях о том, что считать насилием и ненасилием: ненасилие часто неправильно воспринимают как жизненную философию не-агрессии, хотя это не всегда так.

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid

Activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice.