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<p>Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the nature and meaning of ¿violence¿ itself became a conceptual problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin¿s famous 1921 ¿Critique of Violence¿ essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collect
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- Author
- Gavin Rae; Emma Andrea Ingala Gómez
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203703762
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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