Evolution and conversion : dialogues on the origins of culture

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Evolution and conversion : dialogues on the origins of culture

René Girard with Pierpaolo Antonello and João Cezar de Castro Rocha ; [with a foreword by Michael Kirwan]

, 2008, c2007

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Rene Girard is one of the most divisive and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. Over the past forty years, his work has continued to exert an influence across literary theory, philosophy and the social sciences. Echoing the format of his early works, Evolution and Conversion brings Girard into dialogue with two sympathetic interviewers and allows him to speak candidly about the major tenets of his life and thought. Hailed by Michel Serres as "the Charles Darwin" of human sciences, Girard is in fact one of the few thinkers who has given full consideration to an evolutionary perspective to explain the emergence of culture and institutions. Evolution and Conversion draws out not only this aspect of his thought but also emphasises the centrality of religion to his work. Girard's reflection on the relationship between violence and religion is both original and persuasive and, given the urgency of this issue in our contemporary world, in need of a reappraisal.

目次

  • Chapter 1. The Life of the Mind
  • Chapter 2. "A theory by which to work": the Mimetic Mechanism
  • Chapter 3: The Symbolic Species
  • Chapter 4. Critique and Dialogue: From Frazer to Levi-Strauss
  • Chapter 5: Method, Evidence and Truth
  • Chapter 6: The Scandal of Christianity
  • Chapter 7: Modernity, Postmodernity and the End of History.

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