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Josepha Laroche

    Politique internationale
    The Brutalization of the World
    • 2017

      The Brutalization of the World

      From the Retreat of States to Decivilization

      • 124 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks. Based on interdisciplinary analysis combining political science and psychoanalysis, history and political philosophy, it delves down to the deepest roots of this process of the globalization of non-state violence and offers a new framework for understanding it. The first part of the book addresses the construction of the State and the process of civilization, while the second explains why this process is now being bypassed by processes of brutalization in the form of communitarianism and extreme hate, as well as series of mass murders on a widespread basis. 

      The Brutalization of the World