This book provides a novel approach to the social scientific study of violence. It argues for an 'extended' definition of violence in order to avoid subscribing to commonsensical or state propagated definitions of violence, and pays specific attention to 'autotelic violence' (violence for the sake of itself), as well as to terrorism. INDICE: PART I: THE CONCEPT AND OBSERVATION OF VIOLENCE - Introduction: Aspects of Violence - The Definition of Violence: Part I - The Definition of Violence: Part II - From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Rereading Walter Benjamin - PART II: FORMS OF VIOLENCE - The Will to Violence - The Continuation of Violence by Other Means: Terrorism - A Note on Causes of High SchoolViolence - The Trias Violentiae - For a New Social Science of Violence - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57719-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés