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Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Beskrivning

An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis ...was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-04-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801836558

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

René Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University. He is the author of Scapegoat, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, and Violence and the Sacred.

Recensioner i media

Rene Girard is one of the most brilliant, bristly, and provocative of contemporary thinkers... Combative, impassioned and single-minded in purpose, he is an iconoclast who does not hesitate to cross swords with the likes of Freud, Levi-Strauss, Deleuze, and Lacan. -- Robert D. Cottrell PMLA

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1. The Mimetic Desire of Paolo and FrancescaChapter 2. Camus's Stranger RetriedChapter 3. The Underground CriticChapter 4. Strategies of Madness—Nietzsche, Wagner, and DostoevskiChapter 5. Delirium as SystemChapter 6. Perilous Balance: A Comic HypothesisChapter 7. The Plague in Literature and MythChapter 8. Differentiation and Reciprocity in Lévi-Strauss and Contemporary TheoryChapter 9. Violence and Representation in the Mythical TextChapter 10. An Interview with René Girard

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