Download e-book for kindle: René Girard's Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, by Wolfgang Palaver

By Wolfgang Palaver

A systematic creation into the mimetic idea of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this crucial textual content explains its 3 major pillars (mimetic hope, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the aid of examples from literature and philosophy. This publication additionally bargains an outline of René Girard’s lifestyles and paintings, exhibiting how a lot mimetic conception effects from existential and non secular insights into one’s personal mimetic entanglements. moreover it examines the wider implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic point of sovereignty and wars to the connection among the scapegoat mechanism and the query of capital punishment. Mimetic idea is put in the context of present cultural and political debates just like the dating among faith and modernity, terrorism, the dying penalty, and gender concerns. Drawing textual examples from eu literature (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, hurricane, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver makes use of mimetic idea to discover the topics they current. A hugely obtainable publication, this article is complemented through bibliographical references to Girard’s common paintings and secondary literature on mimetic thought and its purposes, comprising a beneficial bibliographical archive that offers the reader with an summary of the advance and dialogue of mimetic thought till the current day.

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