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Title: The Girard Reader by Rene Girard, James G. Williams, James Wiliams ISBN: 0-8245-1634-6 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive introduction to Girard's work
Comment: One of the most interesting aspects of this good general introduction to the brilliant work of Rene Girard is the interview with editor James G. Williams, which touches on Girard's biography and his conversion to Catholicism. The other texts included here span the entirety of his long career as literary critic, groundbreaking anthropologist, and Biblical exegete. The texts address all facets of mimetic theory, from triangular desire to scapegoating, sacrifice, Satan, and the paradoxical place of Nietzsche in the history of mimetic anthropology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing . . . simply Amazing Stuff
Comment: In the academic landscape of victimization theories, deconstruction and post-modernism, here arises a singular voice that cuts to an all encompassing generative theory of civilization. It is a theory that explains why we buy Nike, why we go to war, and how we achieve peace. It would be better known in academia except this poor soul has the unfortunate timing of discovering a theory that objectively validates the truth of Catholicism, when Christianity (and even worse Catholicism) is out of vogue.
His theories have been described as "among the most profound intellectual discoveries of our time" and "a comprehensive vision of the psychological, sociological, political, and religious processes of sin and redemption"
If you are a thinker interested in social critique and a theory that has the power to restore Western Civilization - buy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Key to All Mythologies
Comment: This is a remarkably complete introduction to Rene Girard's ideas. His key theory has the clarity and simplicity of a mathematical proof--desire is not an innate drive but a behavior we learn through imitation (mimesis). When we mimic our model's desire for the same object, violence breaks out. Through ritual scapegoating, human communities manage to divert this violence by directing it at a random victim (thus hiding its real source in mimetic rivalry). According to Girard, this mechanism is at work across all times and cultures, and shapes the plot of nearly every major novel. For those with a suspicion of grand unifying theories, his idea raises many questions. Even more controversial is his belief that Christianity brings an end to myth by exposing the scapegoat's innocence. Christ doesn't die as a sacrifice to God for human sin; instead, the crucifixion reveals the fiction at the root of all sacrifice--the victim's culpability. This helps to humanize one of Christianity's more troubling doctrines, but it also asks us to believe that the authors of the New Testament understood the workings of mimetic desire 2000 years before Girard articulated the theory. Read the book and come to your own conclusions. Whatever you decide, after reading Girard you'll look at myth and religion with new eyes.
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Title: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard, James G. Williams ISBN: 1570753199 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard, Michael Metteer, Stephen Bann ISBN: 0804722153 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard, Patrick Gregory ISBN: 0801822181 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1979 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes by James Alison, Sebastian Moore ISBN: 0824516761 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Scapegoat by Rene Girard, Yvonne Freccero ISBN: 0801839173 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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