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A Genealogy of Social Violence: Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

A Genealogy of Social Violence: Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

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Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138274607
ISBN13: 9781138274600
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 7 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships. With attention to family relationships, A Genealogy of Social Violence sheds light on the processes by which the traditional nuclear family, through the mimetic behaviour of children, embeds violence into human desires and hence society as whole.

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