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Creating a new entity for women victims of violence
23-12-2019
In its issue of December 13, Al Akhbar daily analyzed two approaches to violence by author Hanna Arendt, from a Jewish family, who fled from Germany to France after the Nazis invaded the country, and another by the professor of philosophy at Princeton University, Susan J. Brison. Arendt, in her book, ‘On Violence’ (1970) draws a line between historical violence and the violence of modern society, which as she said, is not aimed at absolute victory but at conquering the contender through various means of suppression, Al Akhbar wrote. On the other hand, Brison, in her book, ‘Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self’ (2002), analyzed violence from her personal perspective. She was kidnapped and raped during her pregnancy and carried on a long journey to reclaim a self she lost with the trauma, Al Akhbar went on to say. Brison, unlike Arendt, does not start off from an authoratitave perspective, but rather from the self a person loses after an unpleasant episode leaving him utterly helpless in the face of an intimidating, life threatening, force. She explains, that from a personal experience, she went through stages to rebuild herself. She viewed the victim of violence not from an attitude of pity, but from a philosophical outlook of contemplation and support to rebuild the self. In conclusion, Al Akhbar cited Brison as saying that the key requisite to remake the self of any victim of violence or abuse is through creating a narrative of their own describing what happened and find a compassionate and understanding recipient of that narrative. For more info: kindly refer to the link below: https://bit.ly/2PPr868. (Al Akhbar, December 19, 2019)
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