Evolution and Conversion

Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

Dr René Girard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-01823-5 (ISBN)

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Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the origin of culture and religion is reunited in the contemporary world by means of a reinterpretation of Christianity and an understanding of the intrinsically violent nature of human beings. He also offers provocative re-readings of Biblical and literary texts and responds to statements by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins. Including an introduction by the authors, this is a revealing text by one of the most original thinkers of our time.

René Girard (1923-) was Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, USA, from 1981 to his retirement in 1995. A historian, literary critic and philosopher, he is the author of over 30 books including Violence and the Sacred.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: 'One long argument from the beginning to the end'
Pierpaolo Antonello and Joao Cezar Castro Rocha

1 The Life of the Mind
2 'A Theory by Which to Work': The Mimetic Mechanism
3 The Symbolic Species
4 Dialogues and Criticism: From Frazer to Levi-Strauss
5 Method, Evidence and Truth
6 The Scandal of Christianity
7 Modernity, Postmodernity and Beyond

Chronology of Girard's Life
List of Girard's Publications
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Revelations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-01823-6 / 1350018236
ISBN-13	978-1-350-01823-5 / 9781350018235
Zustand	Neuware