A genealogy of social violence : founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family /

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Main Author: Jones, Clint.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
Series:Classical and contemporary social theory.
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Table of 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.