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Durkheim and Violence

ISBN: 978-1-444-33275-9

March 2010

Wiley-Blackwell

204 pages

Description
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the political 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.
  • Offers new theoretical paradigms and original theory
  • Forms the foundations for a radical Durkheimian sociology of violence
  • Explores the political anthropology of war, ranging from mass-mediated suicide to torture at Abu Ghraib
  • Contributions are made be leading Durkheim experts
About the Author
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.