To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

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JHU Press, 1988 - 229 Seiten

An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, René Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Danta, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire—and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis. . . was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

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The Mimetic Desire of Paolo and Francesca
1
Camuss Stranger Retried
9
The Underground Critic
36
Strategies of MadnessNietzsche Wagner and Dostoevski
61
Delirium as System
84
A Comic Hypothesis
121
The Plague in Literature and Myth
136
Differentiation and Reciprocity in LéviStrauss and Contemporary Theory
155
Violence and Representation in the Mythical Text
178
An Interview with René Girard
199
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (1988)

René Girard is a Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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