ISBN:
9781472417237
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1472417232
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1472417224
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9781472417220
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9781306169967
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1306169968
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9781472417220
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (240 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
Classical and contemporary social theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jones, Clint Genealogy of social violence : founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Families
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Social sciences / Philosophy
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Social structure
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Sociology / Philosophy
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Violence / Social aspects
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Gesellschaft
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Philosophie
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Sociology Philosophy
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Social sciences Philosophy
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Social structure Social aspects
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Violence
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Families
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Gewalt
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Familienbeziehung
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Sozialstruktur
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Soziologie
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Philosophie
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Mimesis
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Soziologie
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Sozialstruktur
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Gewalt
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Familienbeziehung
;
Mimesis
;
Philosophie
Description / Table of Contents:
Framework -- Historical and philosophical context -- Girardian mimetic theory: objections and responses -- "Justice as unfairness": the social contracts of Girard and Rawls -- Mythologies of the future: justice, mimesis, and idyllic hope -- Utopian undercurrents: undoing mimesis in the social imagination -- Squaring the triangle: correcting the Girardian theory of mimesis
Description / Table of Contents:
Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships. With attention to family relationships, A Genealogy of Social Violence sheds light on the processes by which the traditional nuclear family, through the mimetic behaviour of children, embeds violence into human desires and hence society as whole
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