Things hidden since the foundation of the world

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



An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production. Girard's point o departure is what he calles "mimesis," the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the "scapegoating mechanism," in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order. How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud-if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but becaus ehuman beings wanted it. The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history-the paradox that violance has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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Things hidden since the foundation of the world presents a highly original global theory of culture here in his greatest work ren 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 Uiterlijk 6 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Violence & The Sacred

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Violence and the sacred is ren girard s landmark study of human evil here 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 propagate Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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An astonishing work of cultural criticism this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature anthropology religion and psychoanalysis in its scope and interest it can be compared with freud s totem and taboo the subtext girard refutes wi Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 juni 1987

Aantal pagina's: 480

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: René Girard

Tweede Auteur: René Girard

Co Auteur: Guy Lefort

Hoofduitgeverij: Stanford University Press

Eerste Vertaler: S. Bann

Tweede Vertaler: M. Metteer

Co Vertaler(s): Emeritus Professor of Art History Stephen Bann

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 640 g

EAN: 9780804722155

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