Durkheim and violence / 
[edited by] S. Romi Mukherjee. 
 - West Sussex, U.K. :   [Paris] :  Wiley-Blackwell ;  UNESCO,   2010, c2009. 
 - 200 p.  :  ill. ;   25 cm. 
 - International social science journal ;   no. 185. .
<br/><br/> "International social science journal." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index. 
<br/><br/>  On violence as the negativity of th e Durkheimian : between anomie, sacrifice and effervescence /   Durkheim's theory of violence /   Du rkheimism : a model for external constraint without a theory of violenc e /   Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 /   Durkheimian sociol ogy, biology, and the theory of social conflict /   "Change only for the benefit of society as a whole" : pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence /   Festival, vacation, war : Roger Caillois and the politic s of paroxysm /   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 /   "A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide /   From political emerge ncies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politi cs : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben /   S. Rom i Mukherjee --   Mike Gane --   Jacques Plouin --   Susan Stedman Jones --   Jean-Christophe Ma rcel and Dominique Guillo --   Ivan Strenski --   S. Romi Mukherjee --   Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell --   Alexander Riley --   Ronjon Paul Datta.   Abstracts --   Introduction. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781444332759 (pbk.) 1444332759 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011-509106 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/> Durkheim, Emile,  1858-1917. <br/> Durkheim, Emile
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence.<br/>Durkheimian school of sociology.<br/> Gewalt<br/> Theorie
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.6