When these things begin : conversations with Michel Treguer /
In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that "our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity." Globali...
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing, Michigan :
Michigan State University Press,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 1609174003 9781628950175 162895017X 9781609174002 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A First Overview: Here and Now
- Chapter 2. Mimetic Desire: Shakespeare rather than Plato
- Chapter 3. The Mimetic Crisis: Sacrificial Worlds
- Chapter 4. The Bible
- Chapter 5. Christ (Orders and Disorders)
- Chapter 6. A Return to Imitation
- Chapter 7. Science
- Chapter 8. The One and the Many
- Chapter 9. Democracy
- Chapter 10. God, Freedom
- Chapter 11. Freud, and a Few Others
- Chapter 12. A Method, a Life, a Man
- Notes
- Index