Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Violence and Politics: Questions 1
5. 1. From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility 19
6. 2. Hegel, Hobbes, and the “Conversion of Violence” 25
7. 3. “Inconvertible” Violence? An Essay in Topography 63
8. 4. Strategies of Civility 93
9. Après-Coup : The Limits of Political Anthropology 127
10. Appendix 151
11. Notes 157
12. Index 205