The Oedipus Casebook

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering... Lees meer

Giving Life, Giving Death

Lucien Scubla

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Li... Lees meer

Machado de Assis

João Cezar de Castro Rocha

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the "midlife crisis" Machado de Assis underw... Lees meer

A Refuge of Lies

Cesáreo Bandera

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly consid... Lees meer

When These Things Begin

René Girard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, dem... Lees meer

The Barren Sacrifice

Paul Dumouchel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens--both from each other and from external enemies. Ye... Lees meer

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1, 1

Giuseppe Fornari

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to und... Lees meer

Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence

Adnane Mokrani

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• This groundbreaking book offers the first systematic study of the Qur'ān and Islamic history in the light of René Girard's mimetic theory. Girard did ... Lees meer

Economy and the Future

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• A monster stalks the earth--a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This mo... Lees meer

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, an... Lees meer

Intimate Domain

Martha J Reineke

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an ... Lees meer

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2, 2

Giuseppe Fornari

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to und... Lees meer

The Mimetic Brain

Jean-Michel Oughourlian

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• The discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s led to an explosion of research and debate about the imitative capacities of the human brain. Some herald... Lees meer

Can We Survive Our Origins?

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the 'new atheists')? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instr... Lees meer

The One by Whom Scandal Comes

René Girard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• "Why is there so much violence in our midst?" René Girard asks. "No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers." In ... Lees meer

How to Think about Catastrophe

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• During the last century humanity acquired the ability to destroy itself. The direct approach to destruction can be seen in such facts as the ever-pres... Lees meer

Philosophy's Violent Sacred

Duane Armitage

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Continental and postmodern thinking has misidentified the source of violence as originating from Western metaphysics. It has further failed to acknowl... Lees meer

Evolution of Desire

Cynthia L Haven

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• René Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping v... Lees meer

Battling to the End

René Girard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War , is known above all for his famous dictum: "War is the continuat... Lees meer

Desire and Imitation in International Politics

Jodok Troy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Imitating the desire of others is inherent to the struggle for power in international politics. The imitation of desire is a human trait seldom recogn... Lees meer

Vengeance in Reverse

Mark R Anspach

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as h... Lees meer

The Phantom of the Ego

Nidesh Lawtoo

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries abo... Lees meer

A God Torn to Pieces

Giuseppe Fornari

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Giuseppe Fornari's groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche's neglected importance as a religious thinker and his "untimeliness" place hi... Lees meer

Resurrection from the Underground

René Girard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky's work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author's "underground,"... Lees meer