Product Description: Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function.

Product Description: René 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...read more

Product Description: El sacrificio está en el origen de la cultura humana. El griego queda a oscuras, los vedas se acercan a su desvelamiento, pero sólo el cristianismo lo pone en evidencia y lo desamortiza. Y, con esta acción desmitificadora, deja también en evidencia la hipocresía de todas las nuevas formas míticas de encubrimiento de las vi...read more

Product Description: Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought.  René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin of culture has been at the centre of the philosophical and theoretical debate since the publication in 1971 of his seminal book: Violence and the Sacred...read more

Product Description: Girard's theories on violence, civilization, and religion have intrigued and confounded scholars in the humanities for almost two decades. In this book, Williams has provided the first comprehensive application of Girard's thought to the whole Bible...read more

A brilliant study of human evil, that explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth.

The author of Violence and the Sacred looks at the gospels as a map of human behavior and sees striking parallels with modern human behavior. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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