To Double Business Bound

Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology
Erscheinungsjahr 1988
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3655-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, René Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Danta, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire—and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis. was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Girard, Rene

Girard, René

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Mimetic Desire of Paolo and Francesca
Chapter 2. Camus's Stranger Retried
Chapter 3. The Underground Critic
Chapter 4. Strategies of Madness—Nietzsche, Wagner, and Dostoevski
Chapter 5. Delirium as System
Chapter 6. Perilous Balance: A Comic Hypothesis
Chapter 7. The Plague in Literature and Myth
Chapter 8. Differentiation and Reciprocity in Lévi-Strauss and Contemporary Theory
Chapter 9. Violence and Representation in the Mythical Text
Chapter 10. An Interview with René Girard

Über Autor(innen)

Girard, René
René Girard is a Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

René Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University. He is the author of Scapegoat, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, and Violence and the Sacred.