Modernism, myth, violence, and social change

pp. 159-177

in: Tudor Balinisteanu, Violence, narrative and myth in Joyce and Yeats, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

It is very difficult to understand proletarian violence as long as we think in terms of ideas disseminated by middle-class philosophers; according to their philosophy, violence is a relic of barbarism which is bound to disappear under the influence of the progress of enlightenment. (Sorel, 2004, p. 80)