Violence: another modernity
Author:
Bedřich Loewenstein, Milan Hlavačka, František Šístek et al.
Year of publication:
2017
Publisher:
Historický ústav
ISBN:
978-80-7286-306-8
Violence belongs to the ancient experiential inventory of humanity, because it was and is present in all its "limit" historical situations and also in many anthropological constants, whether it is fear, power, death, trauma, terror, law or injustice or any disciplinary or coercive practices that are supposed to establish "order" or even another "order". Violence can be individual, group or mass, it can be associated not only with wars, but also with finding the right, or with the search for the culprit, therefore it is intertwined with investigation and punishment. The topic of violence in history is thus connected today not only in historiography with many terms that differ in methodological and ideological approaches to this historical substance. At present, the most interesting terms with a "family tree", i.e. their own past, are mainly two types of violence: structural and discursive violence.
