Aspects of Violence A Critical Theory

by Schinkel, Willem

• ISBN13: 9780230577190
• ISBN10: 0230577199
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

WILLEM SCHINKEL is Associate Professor of Theoretical Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

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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