With a novel perspective that contradicts the reading of violence only from empirical or psychological notions, Miriam Jerade makes a reflection from the articulation of the assumptions that were nuclear for deconstruction.

Violence shows the way in which Derrida transformed this notion, as violence of the origin and of the supplement in the first works, towards a performative violence that would be at the origin of the law, of the institutions and of the exercise of sovereignty - moments whose Jerade conjugation shows in the file criticism.

Starting from the idea of the performative turn and the criticism of the theory of speech acts, this book invites us to think about the language agency that inhabits not only all violence but any counterviolence; a violence that installs distrust towards our own thinking.