Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory
β Scribed by Willem Schinkel (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Series
- Cultural Criminology
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Aspects of Violence....Pages 3-15
The Definition of Violence β Part I....Pages 16-44
The Definition of Violence β Part II....Pages 45-83
From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Rereading Walter Benjamin....Pages 84-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Will to Violence....Pages 107-135
The Continuation of Violence by Other Means: Terrorism....Pages 136-153
A Note on Causes of High School Violence....Pages 154-164
The Trias Violentiae....Pages 165-202
For a New Social Science of Violence....Pages 203-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-254
β¦ Subjects
Social Theory; Criminology & Criminal Justice; Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Sociology, general; Forensic Psychology
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