Abstract
The incentives fail to motivate social actors to develop the modern political order as an ideal of rationality and functionality that is a guarantor of genuine peace of mind and body. By characterizing the state through its ability to claim "a monopoly of legitimate physical coercion", Max Weber makes a very strong affinity between the preclusion of private violence and the emergence of a mode of rational-legal domination. Because "there is nowadays violence" legitimate "only insofar as the order allows the state or prescribed", the periodic eruptions of violence or protest affecting French politics seem difficult to understand. Qualifying the central assumption of the dynamics of the West proposed by Norbert Elias, these forms of political rebels recall the fragility of cultural and institutional mechanisms intended to pacify the public space. Their presence invites political science to focus on different modalities of management of violence. What are the reasons that force people to respect the peaceful order of the state? Barely made, such a question indicates the need to move the reflection of his usual course.
