A Genealogy of Social Violence
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A Genealogy of Social Violence

Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

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A Genealogy of Social Violence

Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

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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 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. Challenging the thought of Girard and of Rawls in order to offer a new understanding of justice, this book suggests that in order to achieve a more peaceful society, what is required is not the self-defeating narrative of equality, developed in order to manage the violence engendered by our social institutions, but a reconceptualisation of the nuclear family structure. A striking critique of modern society, which draws on religion, mythology, literature, history, philosophy and political theory, A Genealogy of Social Violence will be of interest to social and political theorists, as well as philosophers working in the area of contemporary social and European thought.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317188162
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Framework
  9. Chapter 2 Historical and Philosophical Context
  10. Chapter 3 Girardian Mimetic Theory: Objections and Responses
  11. Chapter 4 “Justice as Unfairness”: The Social Contracts of Girard and Rawls
  12. Chapter 5 Mythologies of the Future: Justice, Mimesis, and Idyllic Hope
  13. Chapter 6 Utopian Undercurrents: Undoing Mimesis in the Social Imagination
  14. Chapter 7 Squaring the Triangle: Correcting the Girardian Theory of Mimesis
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index