Bloomsbury Revelations: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Brossura

Girard, René

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ISBN 10: 1474268439 ISBN 13: 9781474268431

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016

Riassunto

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 devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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Recensione:

Rene Girard's work is both a rationally articulated study and a prophetic vision of the hidden origins of culture and the nature of cultural processes. In its enormous, breathtaking scope it suggests the projects of those nineteenth century intellectual giants (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud) who still cast long shadows today. By contrast, contemporary criticism seems paltry and faint-hearted. --Comparative Literature

[A] highly readable talent for analyzing and deconstructing myth... original and provocative. --Sunday Times

One of the most striking theories of human culture ever presented. --Christianity and Literature

L'autore:

René Girard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474268439
• ISBN 13: 9781474268431
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464