In the end… wanderlust

Abstract

In the text, the author examines the concept of ?violence? as a possible key term of the 20th century - primarily in the Russian experience, but also in a broader global context. ?Violence? is seen by Ksenia Golubovich as something that comes to the forefront of history after the collapse of the old class society, a society of hierarchies and unchanging patterns, and becomes that protagonist both in the construction of states and in the creative reflection of intellectuals and artists. The article brings together and treats as testimonies the texts of Svetlana Alexievich and Leo Tolstoy, Ren? Girard, Merab Mamardashvili, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx... What is the world of the twentieth century seen from the perspective of the work of violence, and what are the possible practices of nonviolence that must be established in the heart of our everyday life in order to find other answers and solutions where just now the only answer was either repression or war?