Reflections on Violence keyword-yitzhak-rabin Democracy means rule by the

Democracy means rule by the people

Frequently invoked but never previously analysed and illuminated in all its depth and variety

through his resistance to the Cold War tides of the fifties

Against the self-image of the bloc

a world still too much with us

Reflections on Violence keyword-yitzhak-rabin Democracy means rule by theGenocidal wars, concentration camps, firebombed cities, spreading plagues of private blood letting: the twentieth century has seen more than its fair share of violence, planned and unplanned, with prospects of still more to come. And yet, argues John Keane, among the paradoxes of this long century of violence is the paucity of imaginative reflection on the conceptual meaning, cause and effects, and ethical political implications of violence itself.