Violence in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

David Humbert

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• Parting ways with the Freudian and Lacanian readings that have dominated recent scholarly understanding of Hitchcock, David Humbert examines the roots... Lees meer

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2

Giuseppe Fornari

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• This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to und... Lees meer

Resurrection from the Underground

René Girard

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• In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky's work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author's "underground,"... Lees meer

The Oedipus Casebook

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• Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering... Lees meer

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Wolfgang Palaver

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• A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essentia... Lees meer

The Phantom of the Ego

Nidesh Lawtoo

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• The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries abo... Lees meer

Machado de Assis

João Cezar de Castro Rocha

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• This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the "midlife crisis" Machado de Assis underw... Lees meer

Philosophy's Violent Sacred

Duane Armitage

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• Continental and postmodern thinking has misidentified the source of violence as originating from Western metaphysics. It has further failed to acknowl... Lees meer

Mimetic Politics

Roberto Farneti

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• War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of po... Lees meer

Mimesis and Science

Garrels Scott

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• This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of René Girard's mimetic theory, with leading imitation re... Lees meer

A Refuge of Lies

Cesáreo Bandera

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly consid... Lees meer

Giving Life, Giving Death

Lucien Scubla

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• Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Li... Lees meer

Can We Survive Our Origins?

Antonello Pierpaolo

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• Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the 'new atheists')? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instr... Lees meer

A Short Treatise on the Metaphysics of Tsunamis

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

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• In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami ... Lees meer

Vengeance in Reverse

Mark R Anspach

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• How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as h... Lees meer

Intimate Domain

Martha J Reineke

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• For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an ... Lees meer

Economy and the Future

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

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• A monster stalks the earth--a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This mo... Lees meer

The One by Whom Scandal Comes

René Girard

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• "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 ... Lees meer

Desire and Imitation in International Politics

Jodok Troy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Imitating the desire of others is inherent to the struggle for power in international politics. The imitation of desire is a human trait seldom recogn... Lees meer

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1

Giuseppe Fornari

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to und... Lees meer

The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays

Paul Dumouchel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• First published in French in 1979, "The Ambivalence of Scarcity" was a groundbreaking work on mimetic theory. Now expanded upon with new, specially wr... Lees meer

Evolution of Desire

Cynthia L Haven

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• René Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping v... Lees meer

Alterity

Jean-Michel Oughourlian

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• Through the lens of mimetic theory, distinguished French psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian shows how to spot and address rivalry in our lives and b... Lees meer

Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes

Paolo Diego Bubbio

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• Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an account of Paolo Diego Bubbio's twenty-year intellectual journey through the twists and turns... Lees meer