Durkheim and Violence

Emerging shortly after the 150th anniversary of Emile Durkheim’s birth, Durkheim and Violence, offers new and radical perspectives on one of the most pressing issue ofour age: violence. Tackling the question of violence in the Durkheimian oeuvre itself,this volume also boldly offers Durkheimian and Post Durkheimian explorations ofsuch controversial, but timely subjects such as Abu–Ghraib, mass–mediated suicide,war, and the ontology of power and the sacred.
Edited by S. Romi Mukherjee, an expert on the Durkheimian sociology of religions and Durkheimianism in inter–war France, the volume includes articles by an interdisciplinary and international cast of expert sociologists, political theorists, philosophers, and historians of religion. While confronting Durkheimianism in context, the volume also turns the Durkheimian corpus towards a confrontation with various forms of contemporary irrationalism. The volume thus reveals the currency of the Durkheimian tradition, while charting new paths in modern, post–modern, and hyper–modern theory.


Spis treści:
Abstracts.
1. Introduction: On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian: between anomie, sacrifice, and effervescence (S. Romi Mukherjee).
2. Durkheim’s theory of violence (Mike Gane).
3. Durkheimism: a model for external constraint without a theory of violence (Jacques Plouin).
4. Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Susan Stedman Jones).
5. Durkheimian sociology, biology and the theory of social conflict (Jean–Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo).
6. ‘‘Change only for the benefit of society as a whole’’: pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence (Ivan Strenski).
7. Festival, vacation, war: Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm (S. Romi Mukherjee).
8. 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).
9. ‘‘A new kind of fear’’: Jean Baudrillard’s neo–Durkheimian theory of mass–mediated suicide (Alexander Riley).
From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics: a neo–Durkheimian alternative to Agamben (Ronjon Paul Datta).
References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
S. Romi Mukherjee is General Secretary of the French Society for Durkheimian Studies; he is also Maître de conferences in Political Theory and the History of Religions at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Adjunct Professor in Global Studies at the University of Chicago–Paris Center. In addition to writing on the Durkheimian and Post–Durkheimian traditions, he has also published articles on cannibalism, the crisis of French Republicanism, anomie and political depression, and Deleuze and Guattari. He is currently writing a book on the sacred.

Okładka tylna:
Emerging shortly after the 150th anniversary of Emile Durkheim’s birth, Durkheim and Violence, offers new and radical perspectives on one of the most pressing issue ofour age: violence. Tackling the question of violence in the Durkheimian oeuvre itself,this volume also boldly offers Durkheimian and Post Durkheimian explorations ofsuch controversial, but timely subjects such as Abu–Ghraib, mass–mediated suicide,war, and the ontology of power and the sacred.
Edited by S. Romi Mukherjee, an expert on the Durkheimian sociology of religions and Durkheimianism in inter–war France, the volume includes articles by an interdisciplinary and international cast of expert sociologists, political theorists, philosophers, and historians of religion. While confronting Durkhe imianism in context, the volume also turns the Durkheimian corpus towards a confrontation with various forms of contemporary irrationalism. The volume thus reveals the currency of the Durkheimian tradition, while charting new paths in modern, post–modern, and hyper–modern theory.