"International social science journal."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Abstracts -- Introduction. On violence as the negativity of th e Durkheimian : between anomie, sacrifice and effervescence / S. Rom i Mukherjee -- Durkheim's theory of violence / Mike Gane -- Du rkheimism : a model for external constraint without a theory of violenc e / Jacques Plouin -- Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 / Susan Stedman Jones -- Durkheimian sociol ogy, biology, and the theory of social conflict / Jean-Christophe Ma rcel and Dominique Guillo -- "Change only for the benefit of society as a whole" : pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence / Ivan Strenski -- Festival, vacation, war : Roger Caillois and the politic s of paroxysm / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Durkheim's concept of dâer áeglement retranslated, Parsons's reading of Durkheim re-parsed : an ex amination of post-emotional displacement, scapegoating and responsibili ty at Abu Ghraib / Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell -- "A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide / Alexander Riley -- From political emerge ncies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politi cs : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben / Ronjon Paul Datta.

Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the poli tical 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.