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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by Rene Girard
Category: Culture
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 and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural proble ...Show more
The Girard Reader by Rene Girard
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Rene Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard's vision is a brilliant and de ...Show more
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Violence and the Sacred is Rene 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 ...Show more
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