"S'appuyant sur des milliers d'études, plus de trente années de recherches et des statistiques incontestables, Steven Pinker montre que, malgré le terrorisme, malgré les conflits contemporains, la violence n'a cessé de diminuer dans le monde au cours des siècles. Des premiers my…
Violent states and creative states
Violent states and creative states
This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examini…
This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence". The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships exper…
Gewalt hat stets eine Geschichte. Diese bezieht sich sowohl auf das, was vor einem Gewaltereignis geschehen ist, als auch darauf, was nach diesem Ereignis eintritt. Gedächtnissoziologisch gefasst, wirft dies Fragen nach den Verkettungen und Bahnungen von Gewalt im Verlauf der Ze…
Jean Améry: beyond the mind's limits
This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist--mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide. The volume is interdisciplinary, bringing together contributions from philosophy, psy…
Jean Améry: beyond the mind's limits
This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist-mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide. The volume is interdisciplinary, bringing together contributions from philosophy, psyc…
This book studies how people negotiate difficult heritage within their everyday lives, focusing on memory, belonging, and identity. The starting point for the examination is that temporalities lie at the core of understanding this negotiation and that the connection between temp…
