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Norbert Elias and Violence by Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. ** Review “Contrary to a widespread misunderstanding of his theory of civilising processes, Norbert Elias did not believe that violence could ever disappear from human life. He had seen enough to fear that the fragile civilised veneer of modern life would crack and violence would erupt again. In this book, a group of young scholars vigorously explore whether and how his fears were justified.” (Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin, Ireland) “At a time when both national and international rel

Who reads Norbert Elias and Violence?

Author

Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137561183

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Philosophy, Science