An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index. An analysis of the nature, causes,...(展开全部)

From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics 'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it' Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war in V...(展开全部)

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index. An analysis of the nature, causes,...(展开全部)

Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided inspiration for Marxists and Fascists...(展开全部)

Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school studen...(展开全部)

Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school studen...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克（Slavoj Žižek），斯洛文尼亚哲学家、文化批评家，当代最活跃的公共知识分子之一，长期致力于沟通黑格尔、马克思与拉康的精神分析理论，在政治理论、电影理论及理论精神分析等多个领域都有令人瞩目的贡献。1989年他的第一本英文著作《敏感的主体》出版后，迅速获得国际认可，成为二十世纪九十年代以来最耀眼的学术明星。因其犀利而独特的风格，齐泽克被称为“哲学界的摇滚歌手”。 唐健，人文科学学士（中西文学批评）、人文科学硕士（文化人类学），香港《明报》前国际新闻翻译，长期从事自由业翻译，2010年创办齐泽克学会，致力于研读和推介拉康、齐泽克及黑格尔思想。 张嘉荣，香港中文大学哲学硕士，曾任社工、心理辅导员，黑格尔-拉康主义者、齐泽克学会成员。

In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, soverei...(展开全部)

In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, soverei...(展开全部)