The sacred and the political: explorations on mimesis, violence and religion
"What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, immanence and transcendence, religion and violence? And how has this relationship affected the history of the West and its political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mime...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Bloomsbury USA
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Political theory and contemporary philosophy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
/ Mimesis
/ Violence
/ Theological anthropology
/ Philosophical anthropology
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| Further subjects: | B
Violence
Political aspects
B Violence Religious aspects B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General B Violence ; Political aspects B Violence ; Religious aspects B Religion And Politics |
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| Summary: | "What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, immanence and transcendence, religion and violence? And how has this relationship affected the history of the West and its political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by René Girard (1923- ), one of the most important thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, to Machiavelli and political modernity, to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny connections between sacrality and politics in Western political thought and find an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this book seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'."--Bloomsbury Publishing 6 René Girard's Mimetic Theory: An "Anti-political Theology"? 7 A "Theoretical Double": Violence, Religion and Social Order in Schmitt and Girard*; 8 Mimesis and Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason; 9 The Sacred and the Secular: René Girard and Gianni Vattimo on Modernity and Violence; 10 The Myth of Origin: Archaeology and History in the Work of Agamben and Girard; 11 The Age of Panic: On Mimetic Post-modernity; Index; Notes; Introduction: Girard on Plato and Aristotle; Aristotle's verdict on the use of violence in tragedy; The metabasis paradox (1): Castelvetro and Corneille. Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Power of Sacrifice: René Girard and the Political; 1 Aristotle on Mimesis and Violence: Things Hidden since the Foundation of Literary Theory; 2 René Girard and Thomas Aquinas on Prophecy and the Purging of the Notion of Justice; 3 Unlikely Twins? Machiavelli and Girard on Violence, Crisis and the Origins of the State; 4 René Girard, Human Nature and Political Conflict; 5 Spinoza, Girard and the Possibility of a Purely Immanent Democracy. ConclusionNotes; Introduction; Girard and Hegel; Girard and Augustine; Girard and Paul: the "apocalyptic turn"; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; The problem: unrestrained war and mimetic violence; The solution: decision and sacrifice; The danger: secularization and katéchon; The resolution: respatialization and desacralizations; Conclusion: the quest for a new nomos between undifferentiation and exclusion; Notes; The project; Human relations and series; Fused groups; Terror and the pledged group; Notes; God is dead, long live God!; Secularization and resacralization; The end of violence? Human nature: mimetic anthropology in an evolutionary contextFrans de Waal: from subpersonal empathy to imitation and emulation; Merlin Donald: human biocultural evolution and the formation of social order; Biocultural evolution and inter- individual human nature as tools for understanding political conflict; The sacred and the katéchon; Reciprocity: from the intra-regime sacred to global convergence; Conclusion: mimetic anthropology and realism; Notes; Transcendence, self-transcendence and violence; Spinoza and democracy as omnino absolutum imperium; A plea for an immanent democracy. The metabasis paradox (2): from Dacier to GirardConclusion: Aristotle's terror of mimetic violence; Notes; Introduction; Prophecy and its relationship to knowledge in Girard and Aquinas; Prophecy and justice; The "purgation" of natural justice with the help of prophecy and reason; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction: Machiavelli and Girard, a controversial pair; Violence, foundation and order; Good arms, good laws and human beings; Sacrifice and the sacred; Decline and crisis; Conclusions; Notes; The denial of human nature in recent political thought. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 1628925973 |