{"product_id":"durkheim-and-violence-9781444332759","title":"Durkheim and Violence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterdisciplinary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbstracts.  \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian: between anomie, sacrifice, and effervescence (S. Romi Mukherjee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Durkheim’s theory of violence (Mike Gane).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Durkheimism: a model for external constraint without a theory of violence (Jacques Plouin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Susan Stedman Jones).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Durkheimian sociology, biology and the theory of social conflict (Jean-Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. ‘‘Change only for the benefit of society as a whole’’: pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence (Ivan Strenski).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Festival, vacation, war: Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm (S. Romi Mukherjee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Durkheim’s concept of de´re`glement retranslated, Parsons’s reading of Durkheim re-parsed: an examination of post-emotional displacement, scapegoating and responsibility at Abu Ghraib (Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. ‘‘A new kind of fear’’: Jean Baudrillard’s neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide (Alexander Riley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics: a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben (Ronjon Paul Datta).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408385581399,"sku":"9781444332759","price":30.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444332759.jpg?v=1730502711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/durkheim-and-violence-9781444332759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}