Aspects of violence
Subtitle: a critical theory
By: Willem Schinkel.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230577190
Subjects: Violence
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: The Concept and Observation of Violence; title: Introduction: Aspects of Violence; title: The Semanitcs of Violence; title: The Definition of Violence Part I; title: The Definition of Violence Part II; title: The Antinomies of Violence; title: From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin; title: PART II: Forms of Violence; title: The Will to Violence; title: A Note on Causes of High School Violence; title: Defining Terrorism; title: The Trias Violentiae; title: For a New Social Science of Violence.