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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 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 René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of ... Read more
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 René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Michigan State University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
East Lansing, MI, United States
ISBN
9781611860771
SKU
V9781611860771
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About Wolfgang Palaver
Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Chair of the Institute for Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is a member of the advisory board of Imitatio, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to René Girard’s mimetic theory.
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