The origins of violence

"This book "discuss[es] violence and genocide, and question[s] ... violence and genocide, as constitutive of the human condition down the ages. [The] focus is not on violence between individuals, but on intergroup violence. [The] aim is to evoke and explain such intergroup violence in ways that include both physical violence and the violence that inheres in language and culture, in ideas, notions, concepts, narratives, and images."--Provided by publisher.