For Rene Girard : essays in friendship and in truth / edited by Sandor Goodhart ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Girard, René, 1923-2015.

Goodhart, Sandor.

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Girard, René, 1923-2015.

Girard, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, René Girard has hit upon the origin of culture-the way culture began, the way it continues to organize itself. The way communities of human beings structure themselves in a manner that is different from that of other species on the planet. Like Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, Martin Buber, or others who have changed the way we think in the humanities or in the human sciences, Girard has put forth a set of ideas that have altered our perceptions of the world in which we function. We will never be able to think the same way again about mimetic desire, about the scapegoat mechanism, and about the role of Jewish and Christian scripture in explaining sacrifice, violence, and the crises from which our culture has been born. The contributions fall into roughly four areas of interpretive work: religion and religious study; literary study; the philosophy of social science; and psychological studies. The essays presented here are offered as "essays" in the older French sense of attempts (essayer) or trials of ideas, as indeed Girard has tried out ideas with us. With a conscious echo of Montaigne, then, this hommage volume is titled Essays in Friendship and in Truth.

Contents:

Receiving Rene Girard into the Academie Française / Michel Serres

Rene et moi / Eric Gans

Great books / Andrew J. McKenna

My encounter with Rene Girard / Cesáreo Bandera

My life with Rene, Jean-Michel Oughourlian

Detour and sacrifice : Illich and Girard / Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Already from the beginning / Paul Dumouchel

Literature, myth, and prophecy : encountering Rene Girard / Sandor Goodheart

A phenomenology of redemption? / Robert J. Daly

The Girard effect / William A. Johnsen

Rene Girard : the architect of my spiritual home / Jozef Niewiadomski

Eucharisto, Rene Girard : searching for a pacifist theology / Jacques-Jude Lepine

The way to more insight and personal freedom / Sonja Pos

Girard, Buddhism, and the psychology of desire / Eugene Webb

Magister lucis : in the light of Rene Girard / James G. Williams

Breakout from the belly of the beast : Robert Hamerton-Kelly

On paper and in person / Gil Bailie

Drawn into conversion : how mimetic theory changed my way of being a Christian theologian / Walter Palaver

For Rene Girard : in appreciation / Richard J. Golsan

Dispatch from the Girardian boundary / Charles Mabee

Things still hidden / Anthony Bartlett

The turn : lessons from early Girard / Chris Allen Carter

Sacrifice and sexual difference : insights and challenges in the work of Rene Girard / Martha Reineke

"The key of knowledge" : a brief and entirely insufficient account of a discovery / Giuseppe Fornari

Mimetic theory and Christian theology in the twenty-first century / Michael E. Hardin

Rene Girard's hermeneutic : discovery and pedagogy / Tyler Graham.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-62895-078-1

1-60917-129-2

OCLC:

776715662