Mathias Thaler, <i>Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism</i>

Hiebert, Maureen S.

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“…A definition here is not helpful as it is in the very nature of critique, as well as its comradely variant, to disagree -rather than rigidly police the boundaries of the enterprise, comradely critique should itself be open to comradely critique. Definitions-first approaches limit the scope of inquiry and attempt to brush over disagreement (Gunnell, 2011;Thaler, 2018) and are not helpful for the exploratory and open-ended work I am doing here. Instead, I probe comradely critique as an idea and a practice rather than a definition.…”

Section: Comradely Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Comradely Critique

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2021

Political Studies

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What does it mean to disagree with people with whom you usually agree? How should political actors concerned with emancipation approach internal disagreement? In short, how should we go about critiquing not our enemies or adversaries but those with whom we share emancipatory visions? I outline the notion of comradely critique as a solution to these questions. I go through a series of examples of how and when critique should differ depending on its addressee, drawing on Jodi Dean’s figure of the comrade. I develop a contrast with its neighbours the ally and the partisan, thus identifying key elements of comradely critique: good faith, equal humanity, equal standing, solidarity, collaboration, common purpose and dispelling fatalism. I then analyse Theodor W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse’s private correspondence on the 1960s German student movement as an illustration of (imperfect) comradely critique. I conclude by identifying a crucial tension about publicness and privateness.

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Section: Comradely Critiquementioning

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Comradely Critique

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2021

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Mathias Thaler, Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism

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