When These Things Begin (Häftad)
avRene Girard
ISBN: 9781611861105 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, Rene 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." Globalisation has[...]
Can We Survive Our Origins?: Readings in Rene Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred (Häftad)
avPierpaolo Antonello, Paul Gifford
ISBN: 9781611861495 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01Are 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 huma[...]
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism (häftad)
ISBN: 9781611861655 - UTGIVEN: 2015-09Fifty years after its publication in English, Rene 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 p[...]
The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard (Häftad)
avTrevor Cribben Merrill
ISBN: 9781628925234 - UTGIVEN: 2014-10Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplore[...]
