Philosophy of Violence: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

John Sodiq Sanni currently works as Lecturer at the University of Pretoria. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the NRF/British Bilateral Research Academy Chair in Political Theory (Political Studies Department) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research interests include social and political philosophy, continental philosophy (phenomenology), political theory, African philosophy and migration studies.Charles Mathurin Villet is a scholar based in Düsseldorf (Germany) and a research fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa). He was a lecturer (and also discipline head) in philosophy at Monash South Africa (Johannesburg) for almost a decade. He holds a PhD from Monash University (Melbourne). His research interest broadly falls within the fields of postcolonial, whiteness and heterotopian studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Reimagining the colonial condition: understanding unhappiness in context to the colonial wound.- 3. Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis.- 4. Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations.- 5. Corrective Sexual Violence in South Africa: a crime against the deviant Sexualised Other.- 6. Women, violence, and social activism: From Aba women’s protest to #EndSARS protests.- 7. An anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence: An African case study.- 8. Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective.- 9. Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Žižek, Yousfi and Fanon.- 10. A postcolonial theory of recognition: Honneth and Fanon on violence and mutual recognition.