Norbert Elias and Violence

Norbert Elias and Violence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781137561183
ISBN-13 : 1137561181
Rating : 4/5 (181 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Norbert Elias and Violence by : Tatiana Savoia Landini

Download or read book Norbert Elias and Violence written by Tatiana Savoia Landini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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