Violence, Society and Radical Theory : Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society / William Pawlett.
Series Classical and contemporary social theoryEditor: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, [2013]Fecha de copyright: ©2013Descripción: 1 online resource (174 pages)Tipo de contenido:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781409455431
- 1409455432
- 1409455424
- 9781138267145
- 303.6
- HM886 .P354 2014
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Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled OCyinexplicableOCO - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Bataille, Baudrillard and the Theorisation of Violence; 2 Violence, Society and Excess; 3 The Simulacrum of Sex: Serial Killing and Intra-Genic Violence; 4 Re-Thinking 'Spree Killing'; 5 Fascism, Terrorism and Hatred; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.
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