Professor Martín Morillas, of Institute for Peace and Conflicts Studies of the Universidad de Granada, author of the book “The senses of violence”, which has just been published by the academic institution of Granada, says that “violence and ideology are closely connected, not just when producing violence but also antiviolence, and that ideologization is, very often, deeply irrational.”
According to professor José Manuel Martín Morillas, who has analysed in more than 320 pages the signs, concepts, words and speeches of violence as well as the identification and features of this conduct, “there are cultures and subcultures of violence, and cultures and subcultures of antiviolence”, and refers too to that “a civilization can have a whole underlying agonic rationality; a society, at one stage, can adopt a determinate positive agonic type of rationality (expansive, preventive and defensive violence). Every system –Martín Morillas goes on– or social, historical, moral, religious, ethic, therapeutic, disciplinary, political, emancipative or educative model involves a positive agonic rationality, an active, reactive and coactive positioning about the agonic-violent.”
According to the professor of the Universidad de Granada, the ideological models of negative agonic conscience usually focus structural violence and consider cultural or symbolic violence as derivatives of that. “The socio-political and socioeconomic –Martín Morillas says—is generally considered as the most important levels where positive operates (whatever it is, active, reactive or coactive). And however, there is no doubt that sometimes the personal underlines the supra-personal, the structural. The main mission of culture is forging in its members a determinate cultural personality and some motivations of conformative and cohesive identification, mediated to a great extent by cultural symbols.”
Further information: Prof José Manuel Martín Morillas
University Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Universidad de Granada
Phone number: 958 248354 and 958 243670.
E-mail.jmartinm@ugr.es
