Since anomie has been brought to the table

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/7/2012 5:37 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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.)
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> Q: Could describe Benny P.?
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> article links it to tourism(?!) in later studies, a motif of V....
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> "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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The staff sociologist at the think tank i was at used to use the word to 
described the psychological state of workers brought about by the 
meaninglessness of industrial work.

Lack of rule was extended to mean lack of meaning.

He quoted Durkheim sometimes.

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