Violence, Culture And Censure

by Professor Colin Sumner, Colin Sumner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748405558
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/17/1997
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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;