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Author : Richard Golsan
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 368/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rene Girard and Myth by : Richard Golsan
Download or read book Rene Girard and Myth written by Richard Golsan. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Richard Golsan
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 35X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rene Girard and Myth by : Richard Golsan
Download or read book Rene Girard and Myth written by Richard Golsan. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture. Golsan highlights two of Girard's primary concepts--mimetic desire and the scapegoat--and employs the concepts to illustrate the ways Girardian analysis of violence in biblical, classical, and folk myths has influenced recent work in theology, psychology, literary studies, and anthropology. The book concludes with an interview between Golsan and Girard, who offers his own analysis of the appropriation (and criticism) of his work by a politically and intellectually diverse company of scholars.
Author : René Girard
Release : 2005-04-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Violence and the Sacred by : René Girard
Download or read book Violence and the Sacred written by René Girard. This book was released on 2005-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and the Sacred is Girard's brilliant study of human evil. 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 propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory>
Author : Ren Girard
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 58X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by : Ren Girard
Download or read book I See Satan Fall Like Lightning written by Ren Girard. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized -- even now.
Author : René Girard
Release : 2014-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The One by Whom Scandal Comes by : René Girard
Download or read book The One by Whom Scandal Comes written by René Girard. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the loss of reciprocity between humans but from the transition, imperceptible at first but then ever more rapid, from good to bad reciprocity. In this landmark text, Girard continues his study of violence in light of geopolitical competition, focusing on the roots and outcomes of violence across societies latent in the process of globalization. The volume concludes in a wide-ranging interview with the Sicilian cultural theorist Maria Stella Barberi, where Girard’s twenty-first century emphases on the continuity of all religions, global conflict, and the necessity of apocalyptic thinking emerge.
