Violence and forgiveness: from one mimesis to another
René Girard’s breakthrough consists in uncovering the mechanism of violence, namely the mimesis and rivalry it permits. Yet, mimetic violence still leaves the very origin of evil and murder unquestioned. Here Lévinas plays (or should play) a decisive role: the call to murder only becomes possible as...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Continental philosophy review
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 385-397 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mimesis
B Violence B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Forgiveness
B Evil B Mimesis B Violence B Sacrifice |
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| Summary: | René Girard’s breakthrough consists in uncovering the mechanism of violence, namely the mimesis and rivalry it permits. Yet, mimetic violence still leaves the very origin of evil and murder unquestioned. Here Lévinas plays (or should play) a decisive role: the call to murder only becomes possible as one of the versions of the call of the face, the call of the other. This is what Girard should have taken up in order to clarify his final allusions to a "good mimesis"—this other, properly Christic, possibility of the call of the face. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-1103 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Continental philosophy review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11007-019-09483-8 |
