TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee, S. Romi ED - UNESCO. ED - Wiley-Blackwell (Firm) TI - Durkheim and violence SN - 9781444332759 (pbk.) U1 - 303.6 22 PY - 2010///, c2009 CY - West Sussex, U.K., [Paris] PB - Wiley-Blackwell, UNESCO KW - Durkheim, Emile, KW - Durkheim, Emile KW - Violence KW - Durkheimian school of sociology KW - Gewalt KW - swd KW - Theorie N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -