1st Edition
A Genealogy of Social Violence Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family
By Clint Jones
Copyright 2013
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Framework; Chapter 2 Historical and Philosophical Context; Chapter 3 Girardian Mimetic Theory: Objections and Responses; Chapter 4 “Justice as Unfairness”: The Social Contracts of Girard and Rawls; Chapter 5 Mythologies of the Future: Justice, Mimesis, and Idyllic Hope; Chapter 6 Utopian Undercurrents: Undoing Mimesis in the Social Imagination; Chapter 7 Squaring the Triangle: Correcting the Girardian Theory of Mimesis;
Biography
Clint Jones is Instructor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.
’In this ambitious and fascinating study Jones guides the reader through the theories of social violence in the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud and Girard, producing a compelling critique of Rawls' contractual notion of justice. Weaving together the theoretical speculations of Girard and Marcuse with concrete social applications, Jones' work argues for nothing less than a fundamental transformation of family relations and a re-vitalisation of utopian thought.’ William Pawlett, University of Wolverhampton, UK
