Violence: A New Approach

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Violence is an ever-present phenomenon - obstinately resistant to interpretation. This text offers new tools to understand and analyze violence, presenting a new approach based on the subjectivity of the actor, and on the relation between violence and meaning. The relationship between conflict and violence; the place of victims, and the role of the media all shape new forms of violence. This text is an engaged response to these new forms that presents a convincing interpretation and new tools that will be essential for researchers in the social sciences. Introduction PART I - Towards a new paradigm Introduction 1.Violence and Conflict 2.Violence and the State 3.The Emergence of Victims 4. Violence and the Media Conclusion: The limitations of Classical Sociology PART II - The market of the Subject 5. Violence, Loss of Meaning, and Excess Meaning 6. The Non-Meaning Hypothesis 7. Cruelty 8 The Mark of the Subject Conclusion Bibliography