For Rene Girard
Essays in Friendship and in Truth
Published on 17. June 2009
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Paperback/Softback
299 pages
978-0-87013-862-1 (ISBN)
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In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, Rene 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, Emile 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.
Like Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Emile 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 225 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
404 gr
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978-0-87013-862-1 (9780870138621)
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Content
Contents
Preface
Receiving Rene Girard into the Academie Francaise - Michel Serres
Rene et moi - Eric Gans
Great Books - Andrew J. McKenna
My Encounter with Rene Girard - Cesareo 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 Goodhart
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 - Wolfgang Palaver
For Rene Girard: In Appreciation - Richard J. Golsan
Dispatch from the Girardian Boundary - Charles Mabee
Things Still Hidden ... - Anthony Bartlett
The Mimeticist 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
About the Editors and Contributors
Preface
Receiving Rene Girard into the Academie Francaise - Michel Serres
Rene et moi - Eric Gans
Great Books - Andrew J. McKenna
My Encounter with Rene Girard - Cesareo 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 Goodhart
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 - Wolfgang Palaver
For Rene Girard: In Appreciation - Richard J. Golsan
Dispatch from the Girardian Boundary - Charles Mabee
Things Still Hidden ... - Anthony Bartlett
The Mimeticist 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
About the Editors and Contributors