Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)
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Grasm Janssen's Conception of Violence
Grasm Janssen is an interesting third party because she criticizes Derrida's ideas of a violence and language. She also, she grew up in a Mennonite or Mennonite brethren context, which she then left. I think because of her sexuality, she was a lesbian who like, moved to the UK and did a second doctorate and became a Quaker. So she's quite like, has a really broad vision of things. And she sympathizes still with, in some late work with the Mennonite pacifism. But, you know, have some clearer thinking about peace than many Mennites do.
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