René Girard : violence and mimesis / Chris Fleming
- Bib ID:
- 3118572
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- Book
- Author:
- Fleming, Chris |d 1970-
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- Description:
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- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2004
- xii, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0745629474
- 0745629482
- Series:
- Key contemporary thinkers.
- Summary:
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"In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of Rene Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Girard's work is extraordinarily innovative and wide-ranging, cutting across central concerns in philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, anthropology, theology and sociology." "In this much-needed introduction, Chris Fleming traces the development of Girard's thought over forty years, describing the context in which he worked and his influence on a number of disciplines. He unpacks the hypotheses at the centre of Girard's thought - mimetic desire, surrogate victimage and scapegoating, myth, ritual, and the sacred - and provides an assessment of Girard's place in the contemporary academy." "Comprehensive and clearly written, this book constitutes an excellent overview of Girard's work and is essential reading for students and researchers in continental philosophy, theology, literary studies, French studies, and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.000000000000.
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Mimetic Desire 9
- Desire and mimesis 10
- The epistemology of literature, or, literature as
- epistemology? 12
- Mimesis and the dynamics of rivalry: internal and
- external mediation 16
- Pseudo-masochism, pseudo-sadism, and 'metaphysical
- desire' 24
- Metaphysical desire and Stendhalian modernity 29
- The engagement with psychoanalysis 32
- 2 Sacrificial Crisis and Surrogate Victimage 41
- Monstrous doubles: the sacrificial crisis 42
- The scapegoat and the surrogate victimage
- mechanism 47
- Ritual: re-enacting the sacred 54
- Prohibition: proscribing the sacred 64
- Concluding short excursus on the social and the sacred 67
- 3 Myth, Tragedy, History 70
- Hominization: the birth of the human 71
- Myth: narrating the sacred 77
- Short excursus on Levi-Strauss and structuralism 84
- Tragedy: surrogate victimage 'through a glass darkly' 89
- Between myth and history: texts of persecution 101
- 4 Non-Sacrificial Violence: The Judeo-Christian
- Scriptures 111
- The Bible and world myth 115
- Dionysus versus the Crucified 124
- The return of the repressed: things hidden since the
- foundation of the world 130
- The skandalon 136
- Historical Christianity 143
- Conclusion: sacred allergies 149
- 5 Conclusion 152
- Notes 165
- References and Bibliography 188
- Index 203.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-202) and index.
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