Norbert Elias and Violence

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 t...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Landini, Tatiana Savoia (Editor), Dépelteau, François (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Historical sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137561183
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-56118-3
Physical DescriptionXI, 232 p. 2 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. War, Hope, and Fear. - 3. Writings on Violence at the End of a Long Life
  • 3. Figurational Analysis of Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf
  • 4. Violence and Civilité: The Ambivalences of the State
  • 5. Elias' Civilizing Process and the Janus-faced of Modernity
  • 6. Civilisation and Violence at the Periphery of Capitalism: Notes for Rethinking the Brazilian Civilizing Process
  • 7. Self-Inflicted Wound: On the Paradoxical Dimensions of American Violence
  • 8. Norbert Elias and State-building after Violent Conflict
  • 9. Figurational Approach and Commemorating Violence in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 10. Parliamentary Form of Government, Habitus, and Violence: The Case of Iran (1906-1925).

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