The necessary hysteria of
peace/nonviolence
An antiwar commitment
– and everyone already has this commitment to some degree – has an “hysterical”
element (hysteron) of a kind of
pulling away from substantive engagement; this is a parallel to the very same
element in violence, but violence seeks to do harm (for whatever reason), while
nonviolence seeks to prevent it. In either case, however, there is something
that rises above any specific cause or goal (end). Regarding,
for example, the possibility of democracy in
