Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture – serie
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Alterity
Häftad, 2023
637 kr
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Through the lens of mimetic theory, distinguished French psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian shows how to spot and address rivalry in our lives and become open to healthier, more genuine relationships. This important study demonstrates the toxic and pathogenic mechanisms at work in physical …
Resurrection from the Underground
Feodor Dostoevsky
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2012
733 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 …
Politics and Apocalypse
Häftad, 2007
507 kr
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Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is "revelation" or "unveiling," the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has …
For René Girard
Essays in Friendship and in Truth
Av Sandor Goodhart, Jørgen Jørgensen m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
643 kr
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In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, René Girard has hit upon the origin of culture—the way culture began, the way it continues to organize itself. The way communities of human beings structure themselves in a manner that is different from that of other species on …
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 …
Mimesis and Science
Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion
Häftad, 2011
637 kr
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This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of René Girard’s mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences. These chapters explore some of the major discoveries and developments concerning the …
Psychopolitics
Conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill
Häftad, 2012
502 kr
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For thousands of years, political leaders have unified communities by aligning them against common enemies. However, today more than ever, the search for “common” enemies results in anything but unanimity. Scapegoats like Saddam Hussein, for example, led to a stark polarization in the United …
Sacrifice of Socrates
Athens, Plato, Girard
Häftad, 2012
757 kr
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When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public’s blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on …
Flesh Becomes Word
A Lexicography of the Scapegoat or, the History of an Idea
Av David Dawson
Häftad, 2013
517 kr
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Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term “scapegoat” has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While WilliamTyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement …
Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses
Reading Scandalous Texts
Häftad, 2013
578 kr
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Jeremiah Alberg’s fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centers, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a late-breaking scandal. Rationally we would …
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Häftad, 2013
347 kr
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A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from …
Refuge of Lies
Reflections on Faith and Fiction
Häftad, 2013
578 kr
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Erich Auerbach’s seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textual representation of …
Phantom of the Ego
Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo …
God Torn to Pieces
The Nietzsche Case
Häftad, 2013
637 kr
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Giuseppe Fornari’s groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche’s neglected importance as a religious thinker and his “untimeliness” place him at the forefront of modern thought. Capable of exploiting his own failures as a cognitive tool to discover what other philosophers never wanted to …
One by Whom Scandal Comes
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2014
502 kr
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“Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers.” In Girard’s mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else’s desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This …
When These Things Begin
Conversations with Michel Treguer
Av René Girard
Häftad, 2014
629 kr
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In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that “our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity.” Globalization …
Head Beneath the Altar
Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice
Häftad, 2014
637 kr
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In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the …
Prophetic Law
Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
Häftad, 2014
637 kr
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To read literature is to read the way literature reads. René Girard’s immense body of work supports this thesis bountifully. Whether engaging the European novel, ancient Greek tragedy, Shakespeare’s plays, or Jewish and Christian scripture, Girard teaches us to read prophetically, not by offering a …
Intimate Domain
Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory
Häftad, 2014
736 kr
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For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an object because another wants it also. Noting that mimetic desire is driven by our sense of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound …
Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays
Häftad, 2014
1028 kr
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First published in French in 1979, “The Ambivalence of Scarcity” was a groundbreaking work on mimetic theory. Now expanded upon with new, specially written, and never-before-published conference texts and essays, this revised edition explores René Girard’s philosophy in three sections: economy and …
Economy and the Future
A Crisis of Faith
Häftad, 2014
502 kr
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A monster stalks the earth—a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by a light that comes from the future: the Keynesian crisis of expectations. It is this same light …
Mimetic Politics
Dyadic Patterns in Global Politics
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical explanations offered by mainstream political science. Unlike traditional …
Can We Survive Our Origins?
Readings in René Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Paul Gifford
Häftad, 2015
637 kr
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Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the ‘new atheists’)? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage and cope with the intrinsically violent runaway dynamic that characterizes human social organization in all periods of …
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel
Rene Girard and Literary Criticism
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Heather Webb
Häftad, 2015
608 kr
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Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now …
How We Became Human
Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Paul Gifford
Häftad, 2015
757 kr
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From his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, René Girard’s mimetic theory is presented as elucidating “the origins of culture.” He posits that archaic religion (or “the sacred”), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a …
Machado de Assis
Toward a Poetics of Emulation
Häftad, 2015
733 kr
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This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the “midlife crisis” Machado de Assis underwent from 1878 to 1880, the result of which was the writing of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, as well as the remarkable production of his …
Barren Sacrifice
An Essay on Political Violence
Häftad, 2015
656 kr
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According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens—both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own …
Short Treatise on the Metaphysics of Tsunamis
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami whose devastating effects were felt over a vast area. In each case, a natural catastrophe came to be interpreted as a consequence of human evil. …
Mimetic Brain
Häftad, 2016
619 kr
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The discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s led to an explosion of research and debate about the imitative capacities of the human brain. Some herald a paradigm shift on the order of DNA in biology, while others remain skeptical. In this revolutionary volume Jean- Michel Oughourlian shows how the …
Enigmas of Sacrifice
A Critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin Insurrection of 1916
Häftad, 2016
804 kr
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Enigmas of Sacrifice: A Critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin Insurrection of 1916 is the first critical study of the religious poet and militarist Joseph M. Plunkett, who was executed with the other leaders of the Dublin insurrection of 1916. Through Plunkett the author gains access to …
