Violence, Culture and Censure

ISBN-13: 9780748405558 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 225 str.

Colin Sumner; Colin Sumner

Opis

This collection of essays aims to reflect upon our understanding and moral judgement of violence in the 20th century. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Colin Sumner; Chapter 2 On the Violence of Censure, Claire Valiér; Chapter 3 Psychoanalytic Sociology and the Holocaust, David Craig; Chapter 4 The Nazi Censure of Art:, Anthony Amatrudo; Chapter 5 Populism as Social Control in Latin America, Laurence Grant; Chapter 6 The American Prison Problem, Hegemonic Crisis, and the Censure of Inner-City Blacks, Ethan Raup; Chapter 7 Natural Born Killers, Victoria Harbord; Chapter 8 Nihilism and the Philosophy of Violence, Steve Goodman;

O autorze

Colin Sumner