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Alan Page Fiske - Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships - 9781107458918 - V9781107458918
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Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships

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Description for Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships Paperback. This radical and thought-provoking book argues that violence does not result from a breakdown of morality, but is morally motivated. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JHB; JKV; JMH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 616.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107458918
SKU
V9781107458918
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Alan Page Fiske
Alan Page Fiske is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has also served as Director of the Behavior Evolution and Culture Center, and Director of the Culture, Brain, and Development Center. He has worked abroad for eight years as a Peace Corps Volunteer, WHO consultant and Peace Corps Country Director as ... Read more

Reviews for Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
'With its wealth of eye-opening ethnographic and historical comparisons and its contrarian but well-argued analyses, this book is a fascinating exploration of violence and a major contribution to our understanding of the human condition.' Steven Pinker 'Through compelling analyses ranging from primeval forms of human sacrifice to contemporary torture, ancient wars to medieval jousts, contact sports to gang fights, violent ... Read more

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