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Violence and Democracy - John Keane Index More Information Cambridge University Press 0521836999 - Violence and Democracy - John Keane Index More information Index Akihiko, Tanaka 19, 177 A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Al-Fanjari, Ahmad Shawqi 183, 188 Esqrs., Sheriffs of the City of Al-hurriyat’ as-siyasiyyah fi’l Islam 184 Bristol, on the Affairs of America Al-Ghannouchi, Rachid 183, 188, 189, 191 122 ‘The efficiency of using violence to establish an Islamic State’184 Carmichael, Stokely 11 ‘The Islamic movement and violence’ Castoriadis, Cornelius 88 184 China 20, 23 Althusius, Johannes 116, 190 civil society 4, 42–3, 96–9 Politica Methodice digesta atque Ernest Gellner on 43–5 exemplis sacris et profanis ilustrata incompatibility of violence with 38 116 its role in American Revolution 144–6 American Revolution 144–6 rebuilding civil society 129, 130–2 Battle of Trenton 145–6 civil war 25, 112–13 anti-party politics 150–3 civilisation see ‘civilisation’ passim 42–52, apocalyptic terrorism see terrorism 53 Arendt, Hannah 6, 7, 12, 100, 118, 146 civilising process according to Elias Correspondence 1926–1969 (with Karl 55–6 see civility Jaspers) 79 civility 3, 56 On Violence 6, 7, 100, 146 Zygmunt Bauman on 66–7 The Origins of Totalitarianism 98 Samuel Johnson on 42 Aristotle 38–9, 205 and modern state 60–2 on violence 38–9 civility politics 82, 90 Politica 38 civilising process according to Elias 55–6 Aron, Raymond 21, 111 dialectics of 105 Le grand schisme 111 rebuilding civil society 129, 130–2 Les dernieres` annees´ du siecle` 163 Clastres, Pierre 115 Augustine 11, 206 Recherches d’anthropologie politique Aung, San Suu Kyi 155 116 Clausewitz, Carl von 22, 74, 116, 181 Baudrillard, Jean 199 Conrad, Joseph 10 The Evil Demon of Images 199 Council of Europe 80–1 Bauman, Zygmunt 65, 82 Croce, Benedetto 204 Modernity and the Holocaust 65 on civility 66–7 Darnton, Robert 31, 33 Benjamin, Walter 12 The Great Cat Massacre and Other Zur Kritik der Gewalt 12 Episodes in French Cultural Bergson, Henri-Louis 149 History 33 Bin Laden, Osama 11 De Vitoria, Francisco 19 Brecht, Bertolt 138 democracy 1 Burke, Edmund 119–20, 122 and Islamic politics 183–91 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521836999 - Violence and Democracy - John Keane Index More information index 215 democratic virtues 204–6 Erasmus of Rotterdam 56 democratic zones of peace 8, 18 (see also ethics 128–64 democratic peace, theory of) European Union 78, 176 means of violence 2 restraining violence 160–2 Fadlallah, Sayyed Muhammed 189 tendency to democratise violence 2–4, Fanon, Frantz 13, 143 30–1, 75–6 Les Damnes´ de la terre 13 democratic opposition in Eastern Europe see Peau Noire, masques blancs 143 anti-party politics fascism 2 democratic peace, theory of 17–18 Ferguson, Adam 52, 54 democratic zones of peace 17, 18 An Essay on the History of Civil Society zones of violent anarchy 17 53 democratic virtues 204–6 on civilisation 52–3 democratic zones of peace 8, 17, 18 see also Forster, Georg 51 democratic peace, theory of Foucault, Michel 37 democratisation of violence 2–4, 30–1, 32–3, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the 75–88 Prison 37, 57 ten rules 165–209 Freud, Sigmund 104 Derrida, Jacques 11, 169–70 The Uncanny (das Unheimliche) 104 Descartes, Rene´ 206 Les passions de l’ameˆ 206 Galtung, Johan 34, 35 detente´ 85–6 ‘Cultural violence’35 Diderot, Denis 49 ‘Violence, peace and peace research’35 Dunbar, James 54 Gandhi, Mahatma 49, 155 Essays on the History of Mankind in Non-Violent Resistance 155 Rude and Cultivated Ages 54 Gay, Peter 93 The Cultivation of Hatred. The Eco, Umberto 19, 177 Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to ‘Living in the new Middle Ages’20 Freud 93 neo-medieval order 19–20, 102 Gellner, Ernest 43–5 Elias, Norbert 55, 58–60, 82, 91, 96 Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and civilising process 55–6, 62 its Rivals 43–5 civilising process and the modern state Muslim Society 115 61 Gilligan, James 168 on civility and violence 62 Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Uber¨ den Prozess der Zivilization. Epidemic 168 Soziogenetische und Gingrich, Newt 107 psychogenetische Untersuchungen Girard, Rene´ 8–10, 11, 13, 26, 188 55–6 La violence et le sacre´ 8–10, 13, 26 ‘Violence and civilisation. The state Le Bouc emissaire´ 188 monopoly of physical violence and Violences d’aujourd’hui, violence de its infringement’63 toujours 8 Eliot, T. S. 109, 121 Graham, Franklin 183 Elser, Georg 163 Greene, Graham 166 Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 113, 134–5, 165 guerrillas 27 Aussichten auf den Burgerkrieg 114, 135, 199–200 Hassner, Pierre 21, 111 ‘Der Krieg, wie’138 La Violence et la paix. De la bombe on uncivil war and intervention 134–5, atomique au nettoyage ethnique 136–7 21, 111 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521836999 - Violence and Democracy - John Keane Index More information 216 index Hobbes, Thomas 62, 82, 92, 113, 122, 159 Levi, Primo 54 Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Levi-Strauss,´ Claude 64 Power of a Common-Wealth Logan, John 54 Ecclesiastical and Civill 93 Elements of the Philosophy of History Philosophical Rudiments concerning 54 Government and Society 93 The History of The Causes of The Civil Machiavelli, Niccolo` 94, 116 Wars of England, and of The The Prince 94, 116 Counsels and Artifices By Which Mao, Zedong 11 They Were Carried On From The Marx, Karl 10, 95–6 Year 1640 To The Year 1660 110 on civil society 95–6 Hook, Sydney 33 McLuhan, Marshall and Fiore, Quentin 198 Hume, David 120 War and Peace in the Global Village 199 ‘Of public credit’120 Melville, Herman 5 Michels, Robert 148 incivility 46–53, 91–2, 97 and ‘civilisation’ Michnik, Adam 1, 151 42–53 Miller, Arthur 98 India 23 The Misfits 98 intervention 19, 129 see also Enzensberger Miloseviˇ c,´ Slobodan 26 Islamic politics 183–91 Mirabeau, Comte de 49, 94 L’Ami des Hommes ou Traitedela´ James, William 94 population 49, 94 ‘The moral equivalent of war’94 Montesquieu, Baron de 147 Johnson, Samuel 42 Muchembled, Robert 31 on civility 42 on the role of violence 31 Junger,¨ Ernst 16, 122 La Violence au village: sociabiliteet´ In Stahlgewittern 122 comportements populaires en Artois du XVe au XVIIe siecle` 31 Kafka, Franz 38 The Penal Colony 38 national sovereignty, the end of 15, 19 The Trial 208 neo-medieval order 19–20, 102 Kant, Immanuel 91 ‘new middle ages’ see neo-medieval order ‘Welchen Ertrag wird der Fortschritt and under Eco, Sacco zum besseren dem Niebuhr, Reinhold 6 Menschengeschiecht abwerfen?’91 Nietzsche, Friedrich 205 Kaplan, Robert 113, 115 Beyond Good and Evil 165, 205 ‘The coming anarchy’114 non-governmental organisations 132–3 see Khaldun, Ibn 11, 189 also civil society The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to Novalis 49 History 189 nuclear weapons 15–16 King, Martin Luther 154, 155 as a threat to national sovereignty 15 ‘Letter from the Birmingham City Jail’ first side of the triangle of violence 154, 155 20–4 Koselleck, Reinhart 90 in the post-Cold War world system Kritik und Krise. Eine Studie zur 20–4 Pathogenese der burgerlichen¨ Welt Singer and Wildavsky 72–3 90 Orwell, George 15, 128, 156 League of Nations 78 ‘Reflections on Gandhi’156 Lenin, Vladimir I. 11 ‘You and the Atom Bomb’15 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521836999 - Violence and Democracy - John Keane Index More information index 217 pacifism 154–8 Sudan 24 Paine, Thomas 145 Swift, Jonathan 47, 51 The American Crisis 145 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Pakistan 23 Children of Poor People in Ireland Palach, Jan 139 from being a Burden to their Pascal 170 Parents or Country; and for making Patocka,ˇ Jan 87 them beneficial to the Publick 51, peace movements 83 137 British peace movement 83–4, 87–8 The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift Philadelphian model, the 76–7 48 Plato 89 The Republic 89, 180 terrorism 27–9 Polybius 89 apocalyptic terrorism (as the third The General History of Polybius 89 side of the triangle of violence) post-war reconstruction see rebuilding civil 27–9 society classical form 27–8 pragmatism 7 Toch, Hans 168 public spheres 195–8 The Disturbed and Violent Offender (with Kenneth Adams) 168 Qutb, Sayyid 185 Toqueville, Alexis de 148 Torture Committee 81 rebuilding civil society 129, 130–2 totalitarianism 67 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 49–50, 61 triangle of violence, the 20–9 Considerations´ sur le gouvernement de first side of 20–4 Pologne, et sur sa reformation´ second side of 24–7 projetee´ 180–1 third side of 27–9 ‘Fragments of an Essay on the State of War’50 uncivil society see incivility Russian Federation 20, 22 uncivil war 24–7, 114–15, 117–19 as the second side of the triangle of Sacco, Giuseppe 19 violence 24–7 neo-medieval order 19–20, 102 defining uncivil 109 Sartre, Jean-Paul 11 destructiveness of 119–20 Schmitt, Carl 82 uncivil war zones 25–6 see also Der Leviathan in der Staatslehre des Enzensberger Thomas Hobbes 82 United Nations, the 78 Semprun, Jorge 167 United States of America 20, 22 The Long Voyage 167 Shklar, Judith 6, 7 Van Creveld, Martin 114, 115 Singer, Max and Wildavsky, Aaron 18, 72–3 The Transformation of War 114 The Real World Order: Zones of Vidal-Naquet, Pierre 175 Peace/Zones of Turmoil 18, 72–3 La Torture dans la Republique:´ essai Smith, Adam 52 d’histoire et de politique Sorel, Georges 12, 30 contemporaines (1954–1962) 175 Reflexions´ sur la violence 12, 147–50, violence 6 151 against animals 31 Spinoza, Benedict de 205 and civil society 42–3 The Ethics 205 and Islamic politics 183–91 Starkweather case 101 and modern state 60–2 Suarez,´ Francisco 19 and public spheres 195–8 © Cambridge University
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