To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology by Girard, René

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801836558)

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To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology by Girard, René

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology

$28.00
To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology by Girard, René

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology

$28.00
Format: Paperback
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An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-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."

Author: Rene Girard
ISBN-10: 0801836557
ISBN-13: 9780801836558
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/19/1988
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.99w x 0.64d
By Rene Girard
By Rene Girard
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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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