Rethinking Violence

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-61343-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Violence is a prevalent and persistent theme in all aspects of human affairs. A comprehensive understanding of violence therefore requires exposure to the research coming out from all the disciplines in the social sciences: their different methodologies, findings and insights.
This book promotes the merits of an interdisciplinary agenda. By bringing together scholars of violence working in political science, political theory, international relations, economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology and public health, this book explores the complexity of violence and the interface between the empirical and normative dimensions central to this problem. The aim is to investigate the ways in which a correct understanding of this phenomenon must deal with both empirical and normative issues.
There is a tendency for scholars of violence to work predominantly within the narrow parameters of their own discipline: philosophers tend to read fellow philosophers on violence; criminologists tend to rely on the work of fellow criminologists; sociologists tend to trust the writings of fellow sociologists; and so on. This book invites the reader to embrace an interdisciplinary approach towards the universal problem of violence. (178 words)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bufacchi, Vittorio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction
2.Rethinking violence Vittorio Bufacchi
3.Machiavelli and the Gracchi: prudence, violence and redistribution John P. McCormick
4.Violence for equality: lessons from Machiavelli John Baker
5.Asymmetric war, symmetrical intentions: killing civilians in modern armed conflict Michael L. Gross
6.Beyond definition: violence in a global perspective Keith Krause
7.Economic sanctions and global governance: the case of Iraq Joy Gordon
8.Violence: a public health perspective Ivan Perry
9.Violence, integrity and education Jamil Salmi
10.The so-called mindlessness of violence: violence as a pathological variant of aggression Richard Mizen

Über Autor(innen)

Vittorio Bufacchi teaches in the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Violence and Social Justice (2007) and editor of Violence: An Anthology (2009).