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

ISBN-13: 9781138274600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str.

Clint Jones

Opis

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.

Recenzje

’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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Clint Jones is Instructor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.