Baldoli, Roberto

Reconstructing Nonviolence: a New Theory and Action for a Post-Secular Society

by Baldoli, Roberto

fromRoutledge Innovations in Political Theory Ser

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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 natio…

Reconstructing nonviolence: a new theory and practice for a post-secular soci…

by Baldoli, Roberto

fromRoutledge innovations in political theory

0 Type: Book

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 natio…

This thesis aims to ‘reconstruct’ the concept of nonviolence, offering a new unifying and pluralistic definition, which rejects recent worrying uses of the term, and is able to deal with the crisis of democracy and the construction of a post-secular society. Currently nonviolenc…