Oblicza przemocy. Od wersji totalitarnych do kryzysu liberalnej demokracji
The Faces of Violence. From Totalitarian Variations to the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Author(s): Jacek Migasiński
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: violence; atrocity; terror; elimination of violence; crisis of liberal democracy
Summary/Abstract: violence, atrocity, terror, elimination of violence, crisis of liberal democracyThe books is devoted to the problem of violence in its individual variation – gentle and drastic – but above all, institutional or collective violence which occurs in state political systems. It provides an overview of the different standpoints on this issue: from the apology of violence in the terror systems of totalitarian Nazism and communism, through proposals to limit it within liberal democracy, to the present crisis of the latter order and the populism that threatens it.

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