The brutalization of the world : from the retreat of states to decivilization / Josepha Laroche ; translated by Daniel Rayburn.
Language: Spanish Spoken language: French Publication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing , 2017. Description: 116 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-3-319-50792-7 Subject(s): Violencia | Violencia política | Sociología | FilosofíaAbstract: This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks. Based on interdisciplinary analysis combining political science and psychoanalysis, history and political philosophy, it delves down to the deepest roots of this process of the globalization of non-state violence and offers a new framework for understanding it. The first part of the book addresses the construction of the State and the process of civilization, while the second explains why this process is now being bypassed by processes of brutalization in the form of communitarianism and extreme hate, as well as series of mass murders on a widespread basis.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Título original: La brutalisation du monde : du retrait des États à la décivilisation
This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks. Based on interdisciplinary analysis combining political science and psychoanalysis, history and political philosophy, it delves down to the deepest roots of this process of the globalization of non-state violence and offers a new framework for understanding it. The first part of the book addresses the construction of the State and the process of civilization, while the second explains why this process is now being bypassed by processes of brutalization in the form of communitarianism and extreme hate, as well as series of mass murders on a widespread basis.