Battling to the End
Engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. This title shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. It pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the a...
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with F...
Girard Reader
In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.
Violence and the Sacred
"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."-...
Evolution and Conversion
Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought. René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative...
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics a...
Evolution and Conversion
Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature...
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function.
Des choses cachees depuis la fondation du monde
Des choses cachees depuis la fondation du monde
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Scapegoat
Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Rene Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed "l'hypothese gira...
Anorexi Och Mimetiskt Begär
Girard har betonat upptagenheten vid offret som utmärkande för den moderna kulturen, men det är särskilt hans idé om det mimetiska begäret, tillämpat på dagens konsumtionsmönster och skönhetsideal, som ger ett nytt, socialt och historiskt perspektiv på ätstörningarnas allt akutare problem. Den springande punkten i hans resonemang är imitationens betydelse i överföringen av idealiserade kroppsbilder, i media, reklam och träningshallar. Ur Anders Olssons Inledning
The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"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 Girard's mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else's desir...
To Double Business Bound
To Double Business Bound
Syndabocken - En Antologi
René Girard är en av vår tids mest storslagna och kontroversiella tänkare. Sedan början av 60-talet har han utvecklat en teori, med grund i skönlitteratur, myter och antropologi, som försöker förklara kulturens uppkomst i människans rivalitet och begär. Utstötningoch offer är ett sätt att stabilisera samhället, där våldet avleds genom heliga riter. Det kristna evangeliet och den stora litteraturen - som hos Shakespeare, Dostojevskij och Proust - kan avslöja det våld som den offentliga kulturen täcker över.
Violence and the Sacred
Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of so...
