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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2016
356 kr
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard’s vision is a brilliant …
Syndabocken : en antologi
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2007
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
258 kr
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René Girard är en av vår tids mest storslagna och kontroversiella tänkare. Sedan början av 60-talet har han utvecklat en teori, med grund i skönlitteratur, myter och antropologi, som försöker förklara kulturens uppkomst i människans rivalitet och begär. Utstötningoch offer är ett sätt att …
Violence and the Sacred
Av René Girard
Häftad, 1979
376 kr
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"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Self and Other in Literary Structure
Av René Girard
Häftad, 1976
469 kr
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This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural …
Scapegoat
Av René Girard
Häftad, 1989
359 kr
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Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Rene Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed "l'hypothese girardienne," have sparked interdisciplinary, even …
Violence and the Sacred
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms …
Anorexi och mimetiskt begär
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2010
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
173 kr
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"Girard har betonat upptagenheten vid offret som utmärkande för den moderna kulturen, men det är särskilt hans idé om det mimetiska begäret, tillämpat på dagens konsumtionsmönster och skönhetsideal, som ger ett nytt, socialt och historiskt perspektiv på ätstörningarnas allt akutare problem. Den …
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Av Rene Girard
Häftad, 1987
561 kr
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An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes …
Resurrection from the Underground
Feodor Dostoevsky
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2012
735 kr
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In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author’s “underground,” a site of isolation, alienation, and resentment. Brilliantly translated, this book is a testament to Girard’s remarkable engagement with …
All Desire is a Desire for Being
Av René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven
Häftad, 2023
147 kr
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A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing …
Mimesis and Theory
Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Häftad, 2011
347 kr
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Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, …
All Desire is a Desire for Being
Av René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven
E-bok, 2023
125 kr
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A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing …
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2008
558 kr
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Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought. René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin of …
To Double Business Bound
Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology
Av René Girard
Häftad, 1988
389 kr
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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 …
Job
The Victim of His People
Av René Girard
Inbunden, 1987
954 kr
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What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains endlessly. He has just lost his children all his livestock. He scratches his ulcers. The misfortunes of which he complains are all duly enumerated in the prologue. They are misfortunes brought on him by Satan with God's …
Violent Origins
Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
Av Walter Burkert, René Girard m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
386 kr
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Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion …
Oedipus Unbound
Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire
Av René Girard, Mark R. Anspach
Inbunden, 2004
1567 kr
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Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For René Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and …
Oedipus Unbound
Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire
Av René Girard, Mark R. Anspach
Häftad, 2004
271 kr
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Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For René Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and …
Mimesis and Theory
Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Inbunden, 2008
1423 kr
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Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, …
Violent Origins
Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
Av Walter Burkert, René Girard m. fl.
E-bok, 1988
468 kr
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Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion …
Girard Reader
Av Rene Girard, James Williams
Häftad, 1996
492 kr
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In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2003
1469 kr
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Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function.
Theatre of Envy
Av Rene Girard
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
392 kr
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Battling to the End
Conversations with Benoit Chantre
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2009
494 kr
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Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War, is known above all for his famous dictum: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In René Girard’s view, however, the strategist’s treatise offers up a more disturbing truth to the reader willing to …
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the …
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Av René Girard
E-bok, 2017
343 kr
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Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard''s thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which …
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Av René Girard
E-bok, 2017
343 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard''s thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which …
Conversations with René Girard
Prophet of Envy
Av René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven
E-bok, 2020
405 kr
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French theorist René Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed “the new Darwin of the human sciences” and one of the most compelling thinkers of …
Conversations with René Girard
Prophet of Envy
Av René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven
E-bok, 2020
405 kr
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French theorist René Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed “the new Darwin of the human sciences” and one of the most compelling thinkers of …
