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For René Girard : essays in friendship and in truth / edited by Sandor Goodhart [and others]

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In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, René Girard has hit upon the origin of culture - the way culture began, the way it continues to organize itself. The way communities of human beings structure themselves in a manner that is different from that of other species on...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Girard, René, 1923-2015, Goodhart, Sandor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2009.
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Subjects:
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Philosophy, French.
Philosophy, Modern.
Table of Contents:
  • Receiving René Girard into the Académie Française / Michel Serres
  • René et moi / Eric Gans
  • Great books / Andrew J. McKenna
  • My encounter with René Girard / Cesáreo Bandera
  • My life with René, Jean-Michel Oughourlian
  • Detour and sacrifice : Illich and Girard / Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  • Already from the beginning / Paul Dumouchel
  • Literature, myth, and prophecy : encountering René Girard / Sandor Goodheart
  • A phenomenology of redemption? / Robert J. Daly
  • The Girard effect / William A. Johnsen
  • René Girard : the architect of my spiritual home / Jozef Niewiadomski
  • Eucharisto, René Girard : searching for a pacifist theology / Jacques-Jude Lépine
  • The way to more insight and personal freedom / Sonja Pos
  • Girard, Buddhism, and the psychology of desire / Eugene Webb
  • Magister lucis : in the light of René Girard / James G. Williams
  • Breakout from the belly of the beast : Robert Hamerton-Kelly
  • On paper and in person / Gil Bailie
  • Drawn into conversion : how mimetic theory changed my way of being a Christian theologian / Walter Palaver
  • For René Girard : in appreciation / Richard J. Golsan
  • Dispatch from the Girardian boundary / Charles Mabee
  • Things still hidden / Anthony Bartlett
  • The turn : lessons from early Girard / Chris Allen Carter
  • Sacrifice and sexual difference : insights and challenges in the work of René Girard / Martha Reineke
  • "The key of knowledge" : a brief and entirely insufficient account of a discovery / Giuseppe Fornari
  • Mimetic theory and Christian theology in the twenty-first century / Michael E. Hardin
  • René Girard's hermeneutic : discovery and pedagogy / Tyler Graham.

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