Aspects of violence
Subtitle: a critical theory
By: Willem Schinkel
Series: Cultural criminology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780230577190
Description: "While most analyses don't 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Concept and Observation of Violence. Introduction: Aspects of Violence; title: The Definition of Violence Part I; title: The Definition of Violence Part II; title: The From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin; title: Violence in social science. The Will to Violence; title: The continuation of violence by other means : terrorism; title: A Note on Causes of High School Violence; title: Defining Terrorism; title: The Trias Violentiae; title: For a New Social Science of Violence.