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by Roberto Baldoli

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Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early twentieth century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals and whole nations. Yet from a conceptual standpoint, nonviolence struggles to engage with key contemporary political issues: the role of religion in a post-secular world; the crisis of democracy; and the use of supposedly 'nonviolent techniques' for violent aims.

Drawing on classic thinkers and contemporary authors, in particular the Italian philosopher Aldo Capitini, this book shows that nonviolence is inherently a non-systematic and flexible system with no pure, immaculate thought at its core. Instead, at the core of nonviolence there is praxis, which is impure because while it aims at freedom and plurality it is made of less than perfect actions performed in an imperfect environment by flawed individuals.

Offering a more progressive, transformative and at the same time pluralistic concept of nonviolence, this book is an original conceptual analysis of political theory which will appeal to students of international relations, global politics, security studies, peace studies and democratic theory.

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  • Title Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Practice for a Post-Secular Society
  • Author Roberto Baldoli
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 172
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781138553897 / 1138553891
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Liberty, Pluralism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018025599
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.61

About the author

Roberto Baldoli is Associate Lecturer at the University of Exeter, and a member of the Centre for European Governance. He received his PhD in Politics from the University of Exeter in 2015. His main research interests revolve around nonviolence and European Politics. He published on the role of nonviolence to create a post-secular society as well as on different aspects of European politics, such as the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), the Spitzenkandidaten Procedure and the Precautionary Principle.

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