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Elizabeth A Stanko
- The Meanings of Violence Edited By Elizabeth A Stanko
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Dec 26, 2002 · Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions.
- 1st Edition
Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin’s famous 1921 ‘Critique of Violence’ essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together an...
Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin’s famous 1921 ‘Critique of Violence’ essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent thinkers—Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida, Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau ...
- Gavin Rae, Emma Ingala
It examines some meanings of violence and the difficulties involved in defining it, discusses some of the trends that have emerged from the history of violence, and offers some suggestions about how to approach the topic from a different perspective.
Book The Meanings of Violence. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2002. Imprint Routledge. Pages 14. eBook ISBN 9780203986479. ABSTRACT. Attempts to theorise interpersonal violence inevitably lead scholars to speculate about the causes or explanations for a presumed universal phenomenon: ‘violence’.
- Elizabeth A. Stanko
- 2005
Another complication is the huge diversity of meanings of violence across time and across cultures. In the medieval Islamic world, where coercive force, moral law and power were intimately tied to notions of God, concepts such as shawka (brute force) preoccupied political theorists.
Nov 24, 2019 · On the question of violence and the unconscious, René Girard is arguably one of the most incisive contemporary theorists who, after a period of marginalization in the last decades of the twentieth century, is currently returning to give meaning to the human violence that still haunts the twenty-first century.
