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academic study of scapegoating
Author_Richard Golsan
biblical narratives
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Collective Murder
crisis
cultural psychology
desire
Don Quixote
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External Mediation
founding
Founding Murder
girard's
Girard's Critique
Girard's Ideas
Girard's Interpretation
Girard's Reading
Girard's Scheme
Girard's Theory
Girard's View
Girard's Work
Girardian Model
Girard’s Reading
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Interdividual Psychology
Internal Mediation
Metaphysical Desire
mimetic
Mimetic Crisis
Mimetic Desire
myth analysis
Ojibwa Myth
reading
religious anthropology
sacrificial
Sacrificial Crisis
Sacrificial Violence
Scapegoating Process
social conflict origins
thing
Things Hidden
Unanimous Violence
view
violence theory
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415937771
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture. Golsan highlights two of Girard's primary concepts--mimetic desire and the scapegoat--and employs the concepts to illustrate the ways Girardian analysis of violence in biblical, classical, and folk myths has influenced recent work in theology, psychology, literary studies, and anthropology. The book concludes with an interview between Golsan and Girard, who offers his own analysis of the appropriation (and criticism) of his work by a politically and intellectually diverse company of scholars.
Richard Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A & M University. He is editor of The Papon Affair (Routledge 2000).
