Durkheim and violence [Texte imprimé] /
[edited by] S. Romi Mukherjee
- West Sussex : [Paris] : Wiley-Blackwell, UNESCO, 2009 ; 2010
- 1 vol. (200 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
International social science journal, n. 185
Bibliogr. p. 183-192
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 / 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 / "A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide / From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Mike Gane -- Jacques Plouin -- Susan Stedman Jones -- Jean-Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo -- Ivan Strenski -- S. Romi Mukherjee -- Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell -- Alexander Riley -- Ronjon Paul Datta Abstracts -- Introduction.
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
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Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 Violence Durkheimian school of sociology Durkheim, Émile Gewalt Theorie