Towards a theory of violence

Abstract

This article examines five paradoxes to deal with the evident presence of violence in today’s world.  Crossing the borders of the public/private spheres, or rather by locating “above both”, it seems that violence is now more than ever monopoly of the State.  The situations that portray it, acting in each situation where it springs, leads to the proposition of two thesis: one, that violence is originary and intrinsic to man; and a second one, which relativizes this thesis, when law can even erase it when it erases the punishment, according to the circumstances.  From here arise two kinds of violence, crystallized in diverse facts with which intellectuals should face in order  to seek emancipation.