Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the WorldStanford University Press, 1987 - 480 pagini An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production. Girard's point o departure is what he calles "mimesis," the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the "scapegoating mechanism," in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order. How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud--if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but becaus ehuman beings wanted it. The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history--the paradox that violance has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 94
Pagina 5
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Pagina 7
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Pagina 8
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Pagina 9
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Pagina 12
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Ne pare rău, conținutul acestei pagini este restricționat.
Cuprins
The Victimage Mechanism as the Basis of Religion | 3 |
The Development of Culture and Institutions | 48 |
The Process of Hominization | 84 |
Myth The Invisibility of the Founding Murder | 105 |
Texts of Persecution | 126 |
Things hidden since the Foundation of the World | 141 |
A NonSacrificial Reading of the Gospel Text | 180 |
The Sacrificial Reading and Historical Christianity | 224 |
INTERDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY | 281 |
Desire without Object | 299 |
Mimesis and Sexuality | 326 |
Psychoanalytic Mythology | 352 |
Beyond Scandal | 393 |
Notes | 449 |
457 | |
465 | |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard,Jean-Michel Oughourlian,Guy Lefort Previzualizare limitată - 2003 |
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2016 |
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard,Jean-Michel Oughourlian,Guy Lefort Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2003 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
acquisitive mimesis already animal Apocalypse apocalyptic appear become behaviour believe capable Christ Christian completely conflict culture death death instinct difference differentiation divine doubles effect element ence ethnologists ethnology everything existence fact father founding mechanism founding murder Freud gospel text Greek Heidegger homosexuality human hypnosis hypothesis imitation interpretation Jean Santeuil Jesus Judaeo-Christian kind king Kingdom Lévi-Strauss Logos masochism means metaphors metic mimesis mimetic crisis mimetic desire mimetic process mimetic rivalry modern myth mythic mythology narcissism never non-sacrificial notion object obstacle Oedipus complex Ojibwa Old Testament once origin paradox Passion perspective phenomena philosophy Plato play possible primitive principle prohibitions prophets Proust psychoanalysis psychosis radical recognize relationship religion religious reveal ritual rival role sacred sacrificial reading scandal scapegoat sexual societies structure surrogate victim theory thing thought Tikopia understand victimage mechanism viol violence whole words Yahweh
Referințe la această carte
Non-representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect N. J. Thrift Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2008 |