Reading group on Elsa Dorlin’s ‘Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence’ taking place on January 11th at 1pm at Boneshaker Books (2002 23rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404).
“Here, philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left – from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter – to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense. In this history she finds a “martial ethics of the self”: a practice in which violent self defense is the only means for the oppressed to ensure survival and to build a liveable future.”
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