Fantasy and Political Violence: The Meaning of Anticommunism in Chile [German]

by Margarita Palacios

Political violence is often understood in terms of rationality and strategic reasoning, or in terms of psychological breakdown due to structural transformations of society. Such approaches, however, allow us to understand only the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper social phenomenon. Margarita Palacios analyzes political antagonism as expressing meaning and desire while bringing to the fore the paradoxical dynamic of morality and enjoyment which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 353116869X
• ISBN13: 9783531168692
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"