摘要：Violence is not the other of politics. By relating this affirmation to the fundamental ambivalence of politics, this article proposes to reexamine the tensions and the strategies between politics and violence, discussing in particular the degrees and the modalities of the latter. It seeks to trace the instable and mobile lines that separate and relate, on the one hand, forms of cruelty and forms of civility (where civility is understood as a politics of antiviolence) and, on the other hand, violence and extreme violence. The article confronts the question of extreme violence in relation to capitalist globalization, communitarian violence and the State, and examines the political possibilities and strategies of civility, as a capacity to act in conflict and on conflict.
