William Pawlett

Violence, Society and Radical Theory

Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781138267145
• ISBN-10: 1138267147
• Artikelnr.: 53305064

Autorenporträt

William Pawlett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is author of Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society (forthcoming), and Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
Chapter 1 Bataille, Baudrillard and the Theorisation of Violence
Chapter 2 Violence, Society and Excess
Chapter 3 The Simulacrum of Sex: Serial Killing and Intra-Genic Violence
Chapter 4 Re-Thinking 'Spree Killing'
Chapter 5 Fascism, Terrorism and Hatred
Conclusion