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What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents, and prototypes. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and to many modern murders and everyday acts of violence. Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships in order to make them right, according to morally motivated cultural ideals.

Violence. --- Violence --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and religious aspects --- Violence - Moral and ethical aspects

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This volume brings together new and innovative work on questions of violence--and in particular on the moral and political questions surrounding torture and terrorism. Each essay contributes to our understanding of the limits and scope of violence, and how we might appropriately respond to it, in the context of concrete concerns. Questions include: is torture ever justified? How are we to understand terrorism? Should we believe the claim that torture is sometimes necessary? Is conscientious o...

Terrorism and globalization. --- Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Violence -- Philosophy. --- Terrorism --- Violence --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to academics and university students of British literature and culture, focuses on the literary representation of trauma in key works by Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Pat Barker, John Boyne, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Alan Hollinghurst, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, A.L. Kennedy, Ian McEwan, Michael Moorcock, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, within the context of the “ethical turn” in the related fields of literary theory and moral philosophy that has influenced literary criticism over the last three decades, with a special focus on the ethics of alterity, the ethics of truths, and deconstructive ethics.

English fiction --- Ethics in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- English literature --- Violence --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Memory in literature --- History and criticism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- British literature --- British literature. --- 1900 - 1999 --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism --- Violence - Moral and ethical aspects

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"Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays that explores the dynamics of sociological violence from within. Written by anthropologists who have been in the midst of violent conflict, these essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate; and the often surprising creative strategies people use to survive the traumatic and the unpredictable."--Book cover.

Ethnology --- Violence --- Ethnologists --- Anthropological ethics. --- Anthropological ethics --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropologists --- Professional ethics --- Ethnographers --- Violence research --- Fieldwork. --- Research. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Crimes against. --- Fieldwork --- Research --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Crimes against --- Moral and religious aspects --- Ethnology - Fieldwork --- Violence - Research --- Violence - Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethnologists - Crimes against

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L'oeuvre de Frantz Fanon, psychiatre et militant anticolonialiste prématurément disparu en 1961 à l'âge de trente-six ans, a marqué depuis lors des générations d'anticolonialistes, d'activistes des droits civiques et d'intellectuels spécialistes des études postcoloniales. Depuis la publication de ses livres (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952 ; L'An V de la révolution algérienne, 1959 ; Les Damnés de la terre, 1961), on savait que nombre de ses écrits restaient inédits ou inaccessibles. En particulier ses écrits psychiatriques, dont ceux consacrés à l'"aliénation colonialiste vue au travers des maladies mentales" (selon les mots de l'éditeur François Maspero dans sa préface à Pour la révolution africaine, recueil posthume de Fanon publié en 1964). Ce matériel constitue le coeur du présent volume de textes inédits, établi et présenté à la suite d'un long et difficile travail de collecte par Jean Khalfa et Robert Young. Le lecteur y trouvera les articles scientifiques publiés par Fanon, seul ou en collaboration, sa thèse de psychiatrie, ainsi que certains documents annexes et une sélection de textes publiés dans le journal intérieur du pavillon dont Fanon avait la charge à l'Hôpital de Blida-Joinville de 1953 à 1956. On y trouvera également deux de ses pièces de théâtre écrites à Lyon durant ses études de médecine (L'OEil se noie et Les Mains parallèles), la correspondance qui a pu être retrouvée ainsi que certains textes publiés dans El Moudjahid après 1958, non repris dans Pour la révolution africaine. Cet ensemble remarquable est complété par la correspondance qu'avaient échangée François Maspero et l'écrivain Giovanni Pirelli pour un projet de publication des oeuvres complètes de Fanon, ainsi que par l'analyse raisonnée de la bibliothèque de ce dernier. La parution de ces Ecrits constitue un véritable événement éditorial, par le nouveau regard qu'ils vont permettre de porter sur la pensée de Fanon autant que par leur portée toujours actuelle, dans le champ psychiatrique comme dans le champ politique.

Imperialism --- Colonization --- Alienation (Social psychology) --- Mental illness --- Impérialisme --- Colonisation --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) --- Maladies mentales --- History --- Health aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect sanitaire --- Fanon, Frantz, --- France --- Colonies --- Decolonization --- Postcolonialism --- Critical theory --- Political violence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Algeria --- Africa --- Politics and governmen --- Aliénation sociale --- Impérialisme --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) --- Impérialisme. --- Colonisation. --- Colonies françaises --- Decolonization - Moral and ethical aspects --- Political violence - Moral and ethical aspects --- Fanon, Frantz, - 1925-1961 --- France - Colonies - Africa --- Algeria - History - Revolution, 1954-1962 --- Africa - Politics and governmen - 1945-1960