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...
Innehållsförteckning
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.-&...
Om författaren
François Dépelteau is Professor of Sociology at Laurentian University, Canada. He is a specialist in sociological theory and relational sociology, and has published m...