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LEADER: 01505nam a22002418a 4500
001 2009046795
003 DLC
005 20091113171328.0
008 091106s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009046795
020 $a9780230577190 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHM1116$b.S37 2010
082 00 $a303.6$222
100 1 $aSchinkel, Willem,$d1976-
245 10 $aAspects of violence :$ba critical theory /$cWillem Schinkel.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
263 $a1004
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"While most analyses dont define violence and regard it as an essentially contested concept, this book argues for an ontological definition of violence as a reduction of being. This enables a critical sociology to move beyond tacit acceptance of a historically contingent definition of violence as profferred by the state"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: PART I: The Concept and Observation of Violence -- Introduction: Aspects of Violence -- The Semanitcs of Violence -- The Definition of Violence Part I -- The Definition of Violence Part II -- The Antinomies of Violence -- From Critique of Violence to Autotelic Violence: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin -- PART II: Forms of Violence -- The Will to Violence -- A Note on Causes of High School Violence -- Defining Terrorism -- The Trias Violentiae -- For a New Social Science of Violence.
650 0 $aViolence.