Violence is the plague of our civilization. It threatens us daily
through its many tentacles: domestic violence, criminal violence,
sexual abuse, terrorism, state violence, revolution, war, and
genocide. The recently evolved discipline of traumatology has amply
described commonalities in the consequences of violence. But there
was no corresponding discipline of violentology, which explained
why violence occurred in the first place. Inexorably, Valent was
drawn to take the leap from healing the minds of victims to try to
understand the minds of perpetrators. Valent unpicks the minds of
perpetrators in each field of violence. He develops a lens by which
to understand violence from individual to international, and from
primitive to spiritual dimensions. We come to understand how
aggressions that helped our species to survive now threaten our
species with extinction. Such understanding may help to eliminate
our current plague, just as understanding helped to eliminate the
original one. Valent explains his thesis through many stories
accessible to both professionals and lay readers. One story
interweaving throughout is Valent’s own story. From a child who
survived the Holocaust, he ferrets out the minds of his
perpetrators in his quest to prevent future violence. Violence, for
Valent, is not an isolated feature of the human condition.
Surprisingly close to violence are struggles for love. Readers also
learn about that aspect of humanity.
General
Imprint: |
Australian Scholarly Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Australia |
Release date: |
February 2020 |
Authors: |
Paul Valent
|
Dimensions: |
153 x 229 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-925984-05-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
1-925984-05-2 |
Barcode: |
9781925984057 |
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