Elsa Dorlin 
Self-Defense [EPUB ebook] 
A Philosophy of Violence

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Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies ‘worthy of defending’ and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, France’s infamous ‘Code Noir’ forbade slaves from carrying weapons, under penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria, the colonial state outlawed the use of arms by Algerians, but granted French settlers the right to bear arms. Tod...

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Elsa Dorlin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaur�s, and the author of The Matrix of Race: A Sexual and Colonial Genealogy of the Frenc...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 272 ● ISBN 9781839761072 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Translator Kieran Aarons ● Publisher Verso UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8516732 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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