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La violence et le sacré
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ISBN: 9782818502068 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Paris] : Fayard ; Pluriel

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La 4e de couverture indique : "" Comment les cultures archaïques se protégeaient-elles des rivalités mimétiques ? C'est pour répondre à cette question que j'ai écrit La violence et le sacré ", explique René Girard. Dans cet essai audacieux et percutant, il met l'accent sur le rôle de la " violence fondatrice " et sur celui de la " victime émissaire " pour expliquer les premières institutions culturelles et sociales. Une vaste culture ethnologique et des références incontestables permettent à l'auteur de construire une théorie nouvelle du sacré, et de donner une interprétation convaincante de nombreux thèmes mythiques et rituels (la fête, les jumeaux, les frères ennemis, l'inceste, le masque, etc.) dont la signification profonde n'apparaît ici avec tant d'évidence que parce qu'ils sont étudiés, pour la première fois, dans leur unité. Enfin, le plus grand mérite de René Girard est peut-être dans la clarté et dans l'élégance de son exposé. Libéré de toutes les obscurités tenant aux jargons initiatiques, voici un livre d'une grande importance scientifique qui est aussi une magnifique œuvre littéraire."


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The sacred and the political : explorations on mimesis, violence and religion
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ISBN: 1628925965 9781628925968 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Rene Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'.


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René Girard and Raymund Schwager
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ISBN: 1501320483 1501320505 1501320491 9781501320491 9781501320507 9781501320491 9781501320484 9781501320477 1501320475 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York

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"The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist René Girard (1923-2015) has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence -- conducted in French and as yet unpublished, let alone translated into English -- between Girard and his major theological interlocutor Raymund Schwager SJ (1935-2004). It presents the personal relationship between two great thinkers that led to the development of a significant break-through in the humanities. In particular it reveals the theological development of Girard's thought in dialogue with Schwager, who was concerned to assist Girard in areas where he had little expertise and had encountered major criticism, such as the theological application of sacrifice. These issues in particular had placed major barriers to Girard's acceptance in theological circles. These letters reveal how Girard, with Schwager's help, entered the mainstream of theological debate."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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ISBN: 9781474268431 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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