Since anomie has been brought to the table

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 7 04:37:20 CST 2012


Check out the curious wikipedia article on it which Kai first sent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
One curious thing is the "original research' that is, effectively, literary criticism,
finding anomie as a major theme in many writers and movies......
(Seems a bit loose to me.....The Stranger, yes, Brothers K?, maybe not so much.)
 

 
Q: Could describe Benny P.?
 
article links it to tourism(?!) in later studies, a motif of V....
 
 
"Durkheim describes anomie as "a rule that is a lack of rule," "derangement," and "an insatiable will."[2]
Why "an insatiable will"?..interesting, yes?




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