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René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Paperback • 2013 • English • 1. edition

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

By Wolfgang Palaver

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About the book

A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglemen...Show more

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ISBN

9781611860771

Publisher

Michigan State University Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Format

Paperback

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