A genealogy of social violence : founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family / Clint Jones, University of Kentucky, USA.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Clint, 1979-
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]
Series:Classical and contemporary social theory.
Subjects:
Sociology > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social structure.
Violence > Social aspects.
Families.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.