René Girard

Conversations with René Girard (eBook, PDF)

Prophet of Envy
Redaktion: Haven, Cynthia L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

French theorist René Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed "the new Darwin of the human sciences" and one of the most compelling thinkers of the age, Girard spent nearly four decades at Stanford exploring what it means to be human and making major contributions to philosophy, literary criticism, psychology and theology with his mimetic theory.

This is the first collection of interviews with Girard, one that brings together discussions on Cervantes, Dostoevsky, and Proust alongside the causes of conflict and violence and the role of imitation in human behavior. Granting important insights into Girard's life and thought, these provocative and lively conversations underline Girard's place as leading public intellectual and profound theorist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350075153
• Artikelnr.: 58761252

Autorenporträt

René Girard was the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Socrates in the Digital Age
Cynthia L. Haven "There Are Real Victims Behind the Text"
Discussion Myth & Opera
Philippe Godefroid Technological Power in the Post-Sacrificial World
Scott Walter The Logic of the Undecidable
Thomas Bertonneau Violence
Difference
Sacrifice
Rebecca Adams "Revelation is dangerous. It's the spiritual equivalent of nuclear power."
Michel Treguer "What Is Happening Today Is Mimetic Rivalry on a Global Scale."
Henri Tincq "How Should Mimetic Theory Be Applied?"
Maria Stella Barberi Shakespeare
Mimesis
and Desire
Robert Pogue Harrison Why Do We Fight? How Do We Stop?
Robert Pogue Harrison "War Is Everywhere"
Elisabeth Lévy "I am first and foremost a social scientist."
Pedro Sette-Câmara
Alvaro Velloso de Carvalho
and Olavo de Carvalho Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11
Robert Doran The J'Accuse of René Girard: The Audacious Ideas of a Great Thinker
Giulio Meotti "I have always tried to think inside an evolutionary framework."
Pierpaolo Antonello and João Cezar de Castro Rocha A Passion Born of Rivalry
Mark Anspach and Laurence Tacou "Christianity Will Be Victorious
But Only in Defeat"
Cynthia L. Haven Postscript: "René Girard Never Played the Great Man
" Says Biographer
Artur Sebastian Rosman Index