This book presents key conceptualizations of violence as developed by Norbert Elias. The authors explain and exemplify these concepts by analyzing Eliass 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 Eliass thoughts on violence by examining various social processes such as colonization, imperialism, and the Brazilian civilizing processin addition to the ambivalence of state violence. The final chapters suggest how these concepts can be used to explain difficulties in implementing democracy, grappling with memories of violence, and state building after democracy.
Prelims
1. Introduction
Part I An Introduction to Elias Views on Violence
2. War, Hope, and Fear Writings on Violence at the End of a Long Life
3. Figurational Analysis of Michael Hanekes Time of the Wolf
Part II Strengths and limits
4. Violence and Civilit?: The Ambivalences of the State
5. Elias Civilizing Process and the Janus-faced of Modernity
6. Civilisation and Violence at the Periphery of Capitalism: Notes for Rethinking the Brazilian Civilizing Process
7. Self-Inflicted Wound: On the Paradoxical Dimensions of American Violence
Part III Post Conflict Processes and Democracy
8. Norbert Elias and State-building after Violent Conflict
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