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Norbert Elias and Violence

Norbert Elias and Violence

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1137561173
ISBN13: 9781137561176
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book presents key conceptualizations of violence as developed by Norbert Elias. The authors explain and exemplify these concepts by analyzing Elias's late texts, comparing his views to those of Sigmund Freud, and by analyzing the work of filmmaker Michael Haneke. The authors then discuss the strengths and shortcomings of Elias's thoughts on violence by examining various social processes such as colonization, imperialism, and the Brazilian civilizing process-in addition to the ambivalence of state violence. The final chapters suggest how these concepts can be used to explain difficulties in implementing democracy, grappling with memories of violence, and state building after democracy.

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