A genealogy of social violence: founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family
1. Framework -- 2. Historical and philosophical context -- 3. Girardian mimetic theory : objections and responses -- 4. "Justice as unfairness" : the social contracts of Girard and Rawls -- 5. Mythologies of the future : justice, mimesis, and idyllic hope -- 6. Utopian undercurrents : undo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London New York
Routledge,
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Classical and contemporary social theory
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sociology
/ Social structure
/ Violence
/ Family
/ Mimesis
/ Philosophy
B Violence B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Sciences
Philosophy
B Sociology Philosophy B Violence Social aspects B Social Structure B Families |
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Volltext (doi) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 1. Framework -- 2. Historical and philosophical context -- 3. Girardian mimetic theory : objections and responses -- 4. "Justice as unfairness" : the social contracts of Girard and Rawls -- 5. Mythologies of the future : justice, mimesis, and idyllic hope -- 6. Utopian undercurrents : undoing mimesis in the social imagination -- 7. Squaring the triangle : correcting the Girardian theory of mimesis. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-315-56472-2 978-1-317-18815-5 978-1-317-18816-2 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781315564722 |
