The Legitimization of Violence

1. Front Matter

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2. Political Violence in Analytical Perspective

   • David E. Apter

   Pages 1-32

3. The Maturation of a Cosmocrat and the Building of a Discourse Community: The Case of the Shining Path

   • Carlos Iván Degregori

   Pages 33-82

4. Politics, Violence, Writing: The Rituals of “Armed Struggle” in Italy

   • David Moss

   Pages 83-127

5. Violence as Memory and Desire: Neo-Nazism in Contemporary Germany

   • Bradden Weaver

   Pages 128-158

6. Remythologizing Discourses: State and Insurrectionary Violence in Sri Lanka

   • Bruce Kapferer

   Pages 159-188

7. The Lebanese Shi’a and Political Violence in Lebanon

   • Elizabeth Picard

   Pages 189-233

8. “Reading” Violence: Ireland

   • Paul Arthur

   Pages 234-291

9. ETA and Basque Political Violence

   • Michel Wieviorka

   Pages 292-349

10. Violent Exchanges: Reflections on Political Violence in Colombia

    • Malcolm Deas

    Pages 350-404

11. Back Matter

    Pages 405-413

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Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.

• community
• Germany
• memory
• National Socialism
• political violence
• politics
• terrorism
• violence

• Yale University, USA

  David E. Apter

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