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Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory

✍ Scribed by Willem Schinkel (auth.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
259
Series
Cultural Criminology
Category
Library

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✦ 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

✦ Subjects


Social Theory; Criminology & Criminal Justice; Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Sociology, general; Forensic Psychology


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