Norbert Elias and Violence

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
War, Hope and Fear: Writings on Violence at the End of a Long Life....Pages 13-31
Figurational Analysis of Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf ....Pages 33-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Violence and Civilité: The Ambivalences of the State....Pages 55-80
Elias’s Civilizing Process and Janus-Faced Modernity....Pages 81-115
Civilisation and Violence at the Periphery of Capitalism: Notes for Rethinking the Brazilian Civilizing Process....Pages 117-137
Self-Inflicted Wound: On the Paradoxical Dimensions of American Violence....Pages 139-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Norbert Elias and State Building After Violent Conflict....Pages 161-182
The Figurational Approach and Commemorating Violence in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 183-203
Parliamentary Form of Government, Habitus and Violence: The Case of Iran (1906–1925)....Pages 205-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-232