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...David A. Hollinger Robbins Bruce , Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 ), 247 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Siniša Malešević Given the paucity of evidence available, scholarship in archaeology and the social sciences is deeply divided over the question, how old is human violence? Some scholars have concluded that humans are intrinsically violent, and others that they are basically nonviolent, but in both...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Fiske Alan Page and Rai Tage Shakti , Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships , with a foreword by Pinker Steven . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 357 pp. Biggar Nigel...

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...Gianni Vattimo; Santiago Zabala; Translated by Yaakov Mascetti; Jeffrey M. Perl In this interview Vattimo discusses with Zabala the possibility of a nihilist philosophy of law as an alternative to the idea of justice and the violence that predictably results from it. To make this substitution would...

...David A. Hollinger; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Robbins Bruce , Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 ), 247 pp. ...

...Paul Seabright C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 0 Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (London: Profile, 2019), 400 pp. The goodness paradox is that we are good because we are bad. Or, rather, we are less destructively...

...Susan Neiman Reemtsma Jan Philipp , Trust and Violence , trans. Bonfiglio Dominic ( 2008 ; Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 ), 393 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua...

...Inga Clendinnen Gerlach Christian , Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 ), 489 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE...

...Gianni Vattimo; Santiago Zabala Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Yaakov Mascetti CK 8.3-04 Vattimo 7/14/02 3:12 PM Page 452 “WEAK THOUGHT” AND THE REDUCTION OF VIOLENCE A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo...

...Nelson M. Kasfir Boyle Michael J. , Violence after War: Explaining Instability in Post-conflict States . ( Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 ), 433 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Colin Davis Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-06 Davis 3/14/03 10:49 AM Page 241 THE COST OF BEING ETHICAL Fiction, Violence, and Altericide Colin Davis Murder is commonplace in all forms of fiction, so...

... Samir Khalaf, Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon 344 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 224 pp. Despite Khalaf’s wish to find the socioeconomic sources of violence in a country at war with itself since the first clash of Christians...

... violence against conspecifics. There are circumstances, however, in which acts of lethal violence are individually or collectively advantageous and attractive. To perform such acts, we must override our inhibitions. This essay argues that this tension causes us to be ambivalent about killing other human...

... that Latvians themselves nearly became an ethnic minority in “their own” republic—there has been no ethnic violence between Latvians and Russians in the postsocialist era. Yet the events of summer 2014 have radically shifted the political imaginary of this region, raising the specter of a loss of social...

... and of causing him trauma in the process. He threatened to bring charges against her to campus authorities, claiming the support of fellow students. In her lecture, she had discussed the classical figuration of rhetoric—persuasive speech—as violence and sometimes rape. In a discussion the following week, some...

...Caroline Walker Bynum In this guest column, the medieval historian Caroline Walker Bynum uses her recent experiences as a hospital volunteer advocate for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in New York City to meditate on the progressive politics of her younger days in the 1960s, on her...

... or at best allow harm to endure. In this discourse, social disruption must act as signifier for more general (structural and systemic) violence—but then is repressed on exactly the same terms, making it difficult to arrive at solutions for conflict on the ground without renouncing calls for justice...

... of alterity sharpen our understanding of “the assimilation of the Other as a mode of reproduction,” they tend to obscure the whys and the hows of intra- and intercultural disagreements, as well as the nature of the resort to violence as a way of asserting one's will. Huaorani Taromenani Amazonian warfare...