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A genealogy of social violence : founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family / Clint Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Clint Wesley, 1979-
- Series:
- Classical and contemporary social theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Social structure.
- Violence--Social aspects.
- Violence.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472417220
- 1472417224
- OCLC:
- 845085658
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