num_pages: 512
description: From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and An Anthology is the only book of its kind a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.
language: English
title: Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
titlecomplete: Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
genres: Politics, Philosophy, Social Science, War, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 173
publisher: Blackwell Publishing