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

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Jones, Clint

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TextSeries: Classical and contemporary social theoryPublisher: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781472417237 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genealogy of social violence : founding murder, Rawlsian fairness, and the future of the family.DDC classification:

301.01 23

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HM585 .J66 2013eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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