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The Legitimization of Violence

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. David E. Apter

    1. Yale University, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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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.

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  • Yale University, USA

    David E. Apter

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