On Noises and Furies: A Journey Through the Violence of the European Nine Hundred

Abstract

Violence is a phenomenon currently repudiated by the civic and political culture of advanced countries, but not always, nor long ago, it was like this: for much of the 20th century and in almost all the geographical points of the old continent, violence he starred in relations between states, between nations, between ethnic groups and between social classes. Violence, that midwife of History in an apocryphal phrase attributed to Karl Marx, seized human passions and defined the way in which the struggles of hegemony between the different models of system —capitalism, communism—, of government —democracy, dictatorship— and coexistence —nationalism, pluralism—. It is to the study of this common thread of recent history that Julán Casanova has dedicated his latest essay.