Violence, culture and censure

Author(s)

• Sumner, Colin

Bibliographic Information

Violence, culture and censure

edited by Colin Sumner

Taylor & Francis, 1996, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. 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.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Colin Sumner
• Chapter 2 On the Violence of Censure, Claire Valier
• 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

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Details

• NCID: BA31373593
• ISBN:
  • 0748405542
  • 0748405550
• LCCN: 97196469
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Bristol, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 221 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM281
  • DC21 : 303.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Violence
  • LCSH : Violence -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Social control
  • LCSH : Social control -- History -- 20th century