The Value of Violence
This provocative thesis calls violence the driving force not just of war, but of politics and even social stability. Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsberg argues that in many ways it is indispensable, unavoidable, and valuable. Ginsberg sees violence manifested in society in many ways. Law-preserving violence (using Walter Benjamin's phrase) is the chief means by which society preserves social order. Behind the security of a stable society are the blunt instruments of the police, prisons, and the power of the bureaucratic state to coerce and manipulate. Ginsberg also discusses violence as a tool of social change…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61614-831-7
- EAN: 9781616148317
- Produktnummer: 14729658
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
Über den Autor
Benjamin Ginsberg (Potomac, MD) is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013); The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press, 2011); Do the Jews Have a Future in America?(Verbis, 2010); and Political Science as Public Philosophy, co-edited with Gwendolyn Mink (W.W. Norton, 2010).
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