Clint Jones: 2 books
The Individual and Utopia
A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away...
A Genealogy of Social Violence
Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic...