Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Author	: René Girard
File Size	: 53,9 Mb
Publisher	: A&C Black
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 2003
ISBN	: 9780826468536
Pages	: 480 pages

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard Book PDF Summary

Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard,Jean-Michel Oughourlian,Guy Lefort

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard,Jean-Michel Oughourlian,Guy Lefort

This is the single fullest summation of the ideas of one of the most eminent and controversial cultural theorists of our time.

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard

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 and devastating

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Violence and the Sacred by René Girard

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

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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Ren Girard

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

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Battling to the End by René Girard

In Battling to the End René Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that "War is the continuation of politics by other means." He also seemed to believe that governments

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Ren Girard s Mimetic Theory by Wolfgang Palaver

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 literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of

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Evolution and Conversion by René Girard

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 origin

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