To Double Business Bound by Girard

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."

"Ren Girard is one of the most brilliant, bristly, and provocative of contemporary thinkers.. Combative, impassioned and single-minded in purpose, he is an iconoclast who does not hesitate to cross swords with the likes of Freud, Levi-Strauss, Deleuze, and Lacan." -- Robert D. Cottrell, PMLA

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
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