Reflections on Violence

by John Keane

Book Overview

Genocidal wars, concentration camps, firebombed cities, spreading plagues of private blood-letting: the twentieth century has seen more than its fair share of violence, planned and unplanned, with prospects of still more to come. And yet, argues John Keane, among the paradoxes of this long century of violence is the paucity of imaginative reflection on the conceptual meaning, cause and effects, and ethical-political implications of violence itself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859841155
• ISBN13: 9781859841150
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"