William Vollman's (*) Rising Up and Rising Down and Stephen Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature are both surveys of this subject, which was the subject of some "reflections" by George Sorel.
The "immutability" of this concept is considered in "The Days of the Niblungs", which along with "Definitions for Lonely Atoms" appears in the first volume of a 2003 book on this subject. The "hydraulic theory" of this concept is rejected in a book that includes the "escalator of reason" among the five causes for this concept's decline. Its virtues are discussed in a book that introduces the idea of the social myth and advocates the general strike. William Vollman's (*) Rising Up and Rising Down and Stephen Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature are both surveys of this subject, which was the subject of some "reflections" by George Sorel. Hannah Arendt regarded it as the opposite of, rather than the extreme extension of, power, while Max Weber claimed that a state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of it. For 10 points, identify this concept that can be defined as the intentional use of physical force.
The "immutability" of this concept is considered in "The Days of the Niblungs", which along with "Definitions for Lonely Atoms" appears in the first volume of a 2003 book on this subject.
violence [or physical force until mentioned]