Girard, Climate Change, and Apocalypse
In his latest book, Battling to the End , Ren� Girard undertakes a series of culture-readings centered on an account of the end-game of modernity and its potential apocalypse. The book represents the culmination of the thesis, maturing throughout his work, about mimetic violence, rivalry, and the sa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Can we survive our origins?
Year: 2015, Pages: 287-310 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Summary: | In his latest book, Battling to the End , Ren� Girard undertakes a series of culture-readings centered on an account of the end-game of modernity and its potential apocalypse. The book represents the culmination of the thesis, maturing throughout his work, about mimetic violence, rivalry, and the sacred. He suggests that the twentieth-century trend toward total war, including borderless wars such as the ?war on terror,? and borderless economic competition to access the remaining natural resources of the planet, represented a phase change in the history of the age-old problem of human attempts to control and manage the threat of mimetic |
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| ISBN: | 9781628960341 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Can we survive our origins?
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14321/j.ctt14bs0q3.19 |
