ESSENTIAL VIOLENCE AND RENÉ GIRARD’S MIMETIC THEORY
In La Rovina di Kasch , Roberto Calasso tagged René Girard as a hedgehog (1983, 205-10) using Archilochus’s distinction between knowing many things and one thing.¹ For Calasso, Girard’s one thing was the scapegoat mechanism. Girardians have inevitably increased this number to at least two, to includ...
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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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2024
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Homo Mimeticus II
Year: 2024, Pages: 167-182 |
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| Summary: | In La Rovina di Kasch , Roberto Calasso tagged René Girard as a hedgehog (1983, 205-10) using Archilochus’s distinction between knowing many things and one thing.¹ For Calasso, Girard’s one thing was the scapegoat mechanism. Girardians have inevitably increased this number to at least two, to include Girard’s mimetic theory as well as his Christian conversion as an epistemology (Kirwan in Girard, 2008, xii-xiii). In my title I have called attention to a less-recognized feature of violence as discussed within Girard’s "mimetic theory" to feature what Girard called in La violence et le sacré "la violence essentielle" (1972, 332). |
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| ISBN: | 9789461665959 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Homo Mimeticus II
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