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Bewaffnete Konflikte, Umweltkatastrophen, Terrorismus und Krieg gegen den Terror: Was uns als stets neuer Ausbruch von Gewalt erschaudern lässt, ist für René Girard Ausdruck eines planetarischen Gesetzes der entfesselten Gewalt, das unsere Zivilisation an die Schwelle zur wirklichen Apokalypse rückt. Der Krieg ist nicht mehr die Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln, die Mittel haben sich verselbstständigt zur Fortsetzung des Krieges ins...

A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing desires at the heart of our existence - desires that we copy from others, igniting a contagious violence. This remarkable and accessible new selection of ...

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Menschen und Gemeinschaften begehren Objekte nicht um ihrer selbst willen - sondern sie imitieren das Begehren anderer. Durch dieses »mimetische Begehren«, ein Grundkonzept im Denken des Kulturanthropologen und Religionsphilosophen René Girard (1923-2015), entstehen Rivalität und Konflikte. Wie diese zu einem Ende finden, beschreibt Girard mit einem »Sündenbock-Mechanismus«: Die mimetische Vergiftung bewegt sich weg vom Sehnen hin zu einem Opf...

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Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between René Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in mimetic theory. Organized by the French journal Esprit, the conversation was an opportunity for Girard to debate with his interlocutors the theories he expounded in Violence and the Sacred (1972). These scholars prompted him to reconsider the book's strictly sociological i...

Heute mehr denn je steht das Denken Réne Girads im Zentrum theologischer, philosophischer und humanwissenschaftlicher Debatten. Seine Entwicklung einer einheitlichen Kulturtheorie - der mimetischen Theorie -, erlaubt es, alle Phänomene menschlichen Zusammenlebens zu erfassen. Die Neuausgabe bietet die vollständige Übersetzung des frühen Werkes »Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde« sowie eine ausführliche Einleitung und ein aktuelle...

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French theorist René Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed "the new Darwin of the human sciences" and one of the most compelling thinkers of the age, Girard spent nearly four decades at Stanford exploring what it means to be human and making major contributions to philosophy, literary crit...

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Perché la credenza nel sacro? Perché ovunque riti e divieti, perché non vi è stato un ordine sociale, prima del nostro, che non appaia dominato da un'entità soprannaturale?". Con questo libro, apparso per la prima volta nel 1978, l'autore si è spinto sino alle "cose ultime", quelle che, secondo la parola del Vangelo di Matteo, "sono nascoste sin dalla fondazione del mondo". E queste cose, come la "lettera rubata" di Poe, sono così nascoste pro...

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Rene Girard shows that all desires are contagious--and the desire to be thin is no exception. In this compelling new book, Girard ties the anorexia epidemic to what he calls mimetic desire: a desire imitated from a model. Girard has long argued that, far from being spontaneous, our most intimate desires are copied from what we see around us. In a culture obsessed with thinness, the rise of eating disorders should be no surprise. When everyone ...

René Girard's landmark study of violence in Western culture, now available as part of the "Bloomsbury Revelations" series.

These hard-to-find writings afford an inside look at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone--or anything--a rival desires.

What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains endlessly. He has just lost his children all his livestock. He scratches his ulcers. The misfortunes of which he complains are all duly enumerated in the prologue. They are misfortunes brought on him by Satan with God's permission. We think we know, but are we sure? Not once in the Dialogues does Job mention either Satan or anything about his misdeeds. Could it be that th...

In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.