Format:
200 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9781444332759
Series Statement:
International social science journal
Content:
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the political anthropology of war, the rapport between power and the sacred and various forms of contemporary irrationalism ranging from mass-mediated suicide to torture at Abu Ghraib
Note:
Abstracts ; Introduction.On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian : between anomie, sacrifice and effervescence
,
Durkheim's theory of violence
,
Durkheimism : a model for external constraint without a theory of violence
,
Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871
,
Durkheimian sociology, biology, and the theory of social conflict
,
"Change only for the benefit of society as a whole" : pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence
,
Festival, vacation, war : Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm
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Durkheim's concept of dérèglement retranslated, Parsons's reading of Durkheim re-parsed : an examination of post-emotional displacement, scapegoating and responsibility at Abu Ghraib
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"A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide
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From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Durkheim, Émile 1858-1917
;
Gewalt
;
Theorie
;
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