To Double Business Bound by Girard
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."
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All Desire is a Desire for Being
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden
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Le dpart de Jeanne d'Arc, drame historique en deux actes et en vers
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Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde
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Je vois Satan tomber comme l'eclair
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La Violence Et Le Sacre
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Mimesis and Theory
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801821141 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801821142 |
| Title | To Double Business Bound |
| Author | René Girard |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1978-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 229 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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