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"Violence": an essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Your Mid-week Read

“Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our daily lives.”

We have just uploaded another essay from our “New Basics” series: “Violence” by Eraldo Souza dos Santos. You can read it here.

Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a philosopher and historian of political thought who is currently a doctoral student at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. His essay asks, “What do we talk about when we talk about violence?” Eraldo distinguishes various types of violence (symbolic, structural, epistemic) while focusing on the key question of the state’s monopoly on violence and its legitimacy.

Also

Our podcast, “The Philosopher and the News” returned this week after a six-month hiatus. You can listen to Suzanne Schneider discussing “The Ideology Behind Gun Ownership in America” here.

We just uploaded some recordings from the superb “Paulo Freire and Pedagogy of the Oppressed” event we hosted on Wednesday 18th January, featuring Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans:
“Paulo Freire and Pedagogy of the Oppressed”: a recording of Henry and Brad’s conversation.
You can also find some shorter clips from the event here, here, and here.