Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid: Waar ligt de grens?
Maris, Cornelis (ed. with Jozef Keulartz) Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid: Waar ligt de grens? (Mazirel Pers, 2024)
Is it permissible to break the law in the name of justice or other moral goals? Martin Luther King Jr. set the tone for civil disobedience with his nonviolent resistance to racist laws in the United States. Movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo continue this fight against injustice.
In recent decades, attention has also focused on global problems such as the climate crisis. In a democratic constitutional state, civil disobedience is a means of persuading the democratic majority to improve unjust laws. For example, the farmers’ protests and actions of Extinction Rebellion attracted national attention. But where do you draw the line? Is violence, for example, permissible? In Civil Disobedience, philosophical experts address these and other questions. With contributions from Hans Achterhuis, Robin Celikates, René Gabriëls, Nolen Gertz, Jozef Keulartz, Cees Maris, Patricia Reyes Benavides, Mathijs van de Sande, Gerrit Schaafsma, Kees Schuyt, Bas van Stokkom, and Ton Vink.
