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Virtuous Violence

Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships

Virtuous Violence( )
Author: Fiske, Alan Page
Rai, Tage Shakti
Foreword by: Pinker, Steven
ISBN:978-1-107-45891-8
Publication Date:Nov 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.95
Book Description:

Why do people hurt and kill others, or themselves? This provocative book argues that people mostly commit violence because they feel that it is the morally right thing to do. Virtuous Violence shows how human nature, culture, and social relationships can generate violence - or nonviolence.

Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Violence In Society
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm
Book Weight:0.623 Kilograms
Author Biography
Fiske, Alan Page (Author)
Steven Pinker is an authority on language and the mind. He is Peter de Florez professor of psychology in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.




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