Aspects of Violence A Critical Theory

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ISBN: 9780230577190 | 0230577199
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/15/2010

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While most analyses dont define violence and regard it as an essentially contested concept, this book argues for an ontological definition of violence as a reduction of being. This enables a critical sociology to move beyond tacit acceptance of a historically contingent definition of violence as profferred by the state.

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List of Illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
The Concept and Observation of Violence
Introduction: Aspects of Violence	p. 3
The Definition of Violence – Part I	p. 16
The Definition of Violence – Part II	p. 45
From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Rereading Walter Benjamin	p. 84
Violence in Social Science
The Will to Violence	p. 107
The Continuation of Violence by Other Means: Terrorism	p. 136
A Note on Causes of High School Violence	p. 154
The Trias Violentiae	p. 165
For a New Social Science of Violence	p. 203
Notes	p. 230
References	p. 232
Index	p. 245
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