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2) Mimesis and science: empirical research on imitation and the mimetic theory of culture and religion
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens--both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizens. In this book Paul Dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state's primary function into violence against its own members is...
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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 whose devastating effects were felt over a vast area. In each case, a natural catastrophe came to be interpreted as a consequence of human evil. Between these two events, two indisputably moral catastrophes occurred: Auschwitz and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yet the nuclear holocaust...
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How do humans stop fightingWhere do the gods of myth come fromWhat does it mean to go madMark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as he draws on ethnography, literature, psychotherapy, and the theory of Rene Girard to explore some of the fundamental mechanisms of human interaction. Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, the first part of the book outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity, while the second part traces the emergence...
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard's thought in parallel with his life and times. She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one...
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marie Delcourt's brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert's influential 'Oidipus' (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later. Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes : greatness,...