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    From Mimetic Rivalry to Mutual Recognition: Girardian Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis.Scott R. Garrels & Joy M. Bustrum - 2019 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (1):9-46.
    Throughout his career, René Girard consistently positioned his mimetic theory as a far more cohesive account of the wide range of phenomena previously addressed by Sigmund Freud, from the nature of human desire all the way to the origin and structure of human culture and religion. Subsequent theories that took shape in psychoanalysis after Freud were not a part of Girard's ongoing discourse for at least two main reasons: Psycho-analysis was seen as a misguided endeavor with fundamentally incompatible concepts (...)
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    Melissus as a critic of Parmenides: a mimetic rivalry.Massimo Pulpito - 2017 - Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 21:17-40.
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    "More American than America": Mimetic Theory and the East Asia–United States Rivalries.Matthew J. Packer - 2018 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 25 (1):9-26.
    The stakes of the United States–China rivalry, as everyone knows, are enormous. But rarely do accounts of the transpacific relationship acknowledge its mirror-like nature. Commentary has focused on the singularity of China's rise, on the differences between the two countries, and on their each being historically exceptional—when in reality today the two have, as "peer competitors," become models for one another and increasingly alike. As Americans deny the implications of China's emulation of American ways, insisting the Chinese "dream their (...)
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    Desired Baptisms: a Mimetic Reading of Baptismal Rivalry.W. Clark Wolf - 2013 - Heythrop Journal 54 (5):880-890.
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    Desire is Mimetic: A Clinical Approach.Jean-Michel Oughourlian - 1996 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3 (1):43-49.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Desire is Mimetic: A Clinical Approach Jean-Michel Oughourlian Université de Besançon, American Hospital ofParis What is the clinical expression ofmimetic desire? Rivalry. What I see every day in my practice is not mimicking, nor copying, nor learning; it is rivalry. Rivalry is recurrent, it repeats itself. The repetition syndrome identified by psychoanalysis is mimetic for two reasons: 1) because it is always the clinical (...)
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    No End of (Mimetic) Crises? Reflections on Mimetic Escalation, Order, and the Nature of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Brexit.Duncan Morrow - 2020 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 27 (1):15-40.
    In his final original book, Battling to the End, Girard could hardly have been clearer: "Violence" he wrote, "can no longer be checked. From this point of view we can say that the apocalypse has begun."1Faced with the rise of global Islamist terror and the declaration of a "war against terror," Girard observed the collapse of politics as a mechanism to contain violence. History is not inevitably and dialectically converging on a rational Hegelian Aufhebung but has the pattern of a (...)
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    Mimetic Theory and Its Rivals: A Reply to Pablo Bandera.Richard van Oort - 2010 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 17:189-203.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Mimetic Theory and Its Rivals:A Reply to Pablo BanderaRichard van Oort (bio)There are three ways to respond to a rival theory. You can ignore it, you can assimilate it to what you already believe, or you can assess its merits independently and then either reject it or adopt it as the better, more powerful theory. Let us briefly review these three strategies.1. Assuming you are already in possession (...)
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    As it is in Heaven! Mimetic Theory, Religious Transformation and Social Crisis in Africa.Ibanga B. Ikpe - 2009 - Journal of Human Values 15 (1):15-27.
    This article is an overview of Rene Girard's mimetic theory and its application to and implications for conflict in Africa. It accepts Girard's basic idea that imitation is a feature of all individuals but disagrees with his view that the Christian gospel can adequately eliminate mimetic rivalry and thereby lead to a non-sacrificial culture. Drawing from the concept of culture and the African experience of Christianity, it argues that the Christian influence in Africa has only produced a (...)
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    Mimetic Desire and the Nigerian Novel: The Case of Chike Momah's Titi: Biafran Maid in Geneva.Terri Ochiagha - 2010 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 17:205-215.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Mimetic Desire and the Nigerian Novel:The Case of Chike Momah's Titi: Biafran Maid in GenevaTerri Ochiagha (bio)René Girard's mimetic theory was first informed by Western canonical novels. Girard's paradigm, with its psychological, anthropological, and historical backing, provides explanations for universal phenomena like rivalry, violence, scapegoat mechanisms, and the religious processes of sin and redemption. While it is not reflected in his choice of literary subjects, Girard (...)
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    Mimetic Sadism in the Fiction of Yukio Mishima.Jerry Piven - 2001 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 8 (1):69-89.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:MIMETIC SADISM IN THE FICTION OF YUKIO MISHIMA Jerry Piven New York University Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) was one ofthe mostenigmatic authors of the 20th century. Novelist, playwright, actor, exhibiionist —his novels are rife with homoerotic and violent imagery, while his fanatical and nihilistic philosophy calls for a return to a Samurai ethos. Mishima thus attained infamy in Japan and in the West, as his shocking novels inspired hordes (...)
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    GOSPEL WRITERS AND CLASSICAL POETS - (D.R.) MacDonald Synopses of Epic, Tragedy, and the Gospels. Volume 1: Mimetic Synopsis of Four Synoptic Gospels (Q+, Mark, Matthew, and Luke). Imitations of Deuteronomy, Homer, and Athenian Tragedies. Volume 2: Mimetic Syncrisis of the Acts of the Apostles. Imitations of Homer and Euripides and Rivalry with the Aeneid. Volume 3: Mimetic Synopsis of Three Gospels of John. Imitations of the Synoptics and Euripides’ Bacchae. Pp. viii + 564, colour ills. Claremont, CA: Mimesis Press, 2022. Paper, £36.51. ISBN: 979-8-9867801-1-5. [REVIEW]Pheme Perkins - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (1):312-314.
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    The Philosophic Foundations of Mimetic Theory and Cognitive Science: (Including Artificial Intelligence).Jean-Pierre Dupuy - 2022 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29 (1):1-13.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Philosophic Foundations of Mimetic Theory and Cognitive Science(Including Artificial Intelligence)Jean-Pierre Dupuy (bio)In the mid 1970s I discovered at the same time cognitive science and mimetic theory. Being a philosopher with a scientific background, I immediately brought them together and tried to reconceptualize the latter in terms of the former. In a sense, I haven't stopped doing that in the last 45 years. That is why I (...)
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    Imitation, Mirror Neurons, and Mimetic Desire: Convergence Between the Mimetic Theory of René Girard and Empirical Research on Imitation.Scott R. Garrels - 2005 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 12 (1):47-86.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Imitation, Mirror Neurons, and Mimetic Desire:Convergence Between the Mimetic Theory of René Girard and Empirical Research on ImitationScott R. GarrelsIntroductionUntil recently, the pervasive and primordial role of imitation in human life was either largely ignored or misunderstood by empirical researchers. This is no longer the case. It is now clear that investigations on human imitation are among the most profound and revolutionary areas of research contributing to (...)
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    Abortion as a Sacrament: Mimetic Desire and Sacrifice in Sexual Politics.Bernadette Waterman Ward - 2000 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 7 (1):18-35.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ABORTION AS A SACRAMENT: MIMETIC DESIRE AND SACRIFICE IN SEXUAL POLITICS Bernadette Waterman Ward SUNY-Oswego "If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." That familiar taunt is mostly aimed at Roman Catholics to humiliate them for their purportedly religious and anti-rational opposition to abortion. It is conventional to sniffthat the "religious assumptions" on which disapproval of abortion is "typically based" are "highly questionable" (Chambers 1). But the (...)
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    The age of the algorithmic society a Girardian analysis of mimesis, rivalry, and identity in the age of artificial intelligence.Lucas Freund - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-10.
    This paper explores the intersection of René Girard's mimetic theory and the algorithmic society, particularly in the context of the potential advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Girard's theory, which elucidates the dynamics of desire, rivalry, scapegoating, and the sacrificial crisis, provides a unique lens through which to examine the complexities of our relationship with AI and its role in the creation of the sacred. As individuals increasingly rely on AI recommendations, the distinction between personal choice and algorithmic (...)
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    The Jewish Vaccine against Mimetic Desire: A Girardian Exploration of a Sabbath Ritual.Vanessa Avery - 2012 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19:19-39.
    In Violence and the Sacred (henceforth, V&S), Rene Girard remarks that when we think of siblings, we often think of affectionate relationships.1 He then proposes, however, that the stories that have come down to us through mythology and sacred scriptures often tell us otherwise. Warring siblings are embedded deeply in history, religion, and literature: Girard lists Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Eteocles and Polyneices, Romulus and Remus, Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland as just a few examples of the (...)
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    "The enemy is the external form of our own question": Four Notes on the Mimetic Roots of Political Identities.Maria Stella Barberi - 2018 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 25 (1):1-7.
    This essay concerns political identities as related to the existence of an enemy. Here are four methodological key points as topics for discussion.Even in the natural biological environment, where imitation has its real beginning, we find not only a subject and an object, but also a third element: René Girard calls it "the model of desire."1 The subject desires the object insofar as the model is imagined to want the same object. Therefore, mankind's dependence on the model is, as it (...)
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    The Denial of Peter: René Girard, Mimetic Desire, and Conversion.William E. Cain - 2022 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29 (1):101-121.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Denial of PeterRené Girard, Mimetic Desire, and ConversionWilliam E. Cain (bio)Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.—René GirardI believe in commitment … We must be committed to one position and follow it through.—René GirardIn many books and essays throughout his long (...)
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    Violent Conflict, the Struggle for Identity, and the Contagion of Mimetic Desire in the Prison Environment.Carlos Garcia - 2024 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31 (1):95-119.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Violent Conflict, the Struggle for Identity, and the Contagion of Mimetic Desire in the Prison EnvironmentCarlos GarciaMy name is Carlos Garcia. I am 56 years old and a junior class member of the Hope College–Western Theological Seminary Prison Education Program. I have lived my entire life in the state of Michigan. Unfortunately, more than forty of those years have been spent in juvenile detention centers, county jails, rehabilitation (...)
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    Exploring Girard's Concerns about Human Proximity: Attachment and Mimetic Theory in Conversation.Kathryn M. Frost - 2019 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (1):47-63.
    René Girard developed his theory largely as a response to what he saw as Freud's profound discovery, namely, a recognition that violence and conflict are at the root of all social relations. Girard, however, rejected Freud's psychology of the autonomous subject and his emphasis on the family of origin dynamics in favor of the intersubjective experience of mimetic desire occurring between persons anywhere at any age. With imitation of others as the guiding theoretical principle of mimetic theory, Girard (...)
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    Seven correlations between interpersonal violence and the progression of organised religion.Marian G. Simion - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (4):10.
    While the majority of organised religions determine the origins of religion itself in an act of divine revelation, social science literature takes an evolutionary perspective. Without engaging the question of origin of religion from either perspective, this article proposes seven correlations between interpersonal violence and the progression of organised religion by suggesting that interpersonal violence plays a significant role in the institutionalising process of organised religion. Although interpersonal violence does not necessarily cause the structuring of faith, it reinforces and provides (...)
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    The One by Whom Scandal Comes.René Girard - 2014 - Michigan State University Press.
    “Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers.” In Girard’s mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else’s desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the loss of reciprocity between humans but (...)
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  23. The Satanic and the Theomimetic: Distinguishing and Reconciling "Sacrifice" in René Girard and Gregory the Great.Jordan Joseph Wales - 2020 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 27 (1):177-214.
    Compelling voices charge that the theological notion of “sacrifice” valorizes suffering and fosters a culture of violence by the claim that Christ’s death on the Cross paid for human sins. Beneath the ‘sacred’ violence of sacrifice, René Girard discerns a concealed scapegoat-murder driven by a distortion of human desire that itself must lead to human self-annihilation. I here ask: can one speak safely of sacrifice; and can human beings somehow cease to practice the sacrifice that must otherwise destroy them? Drawing (...)
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    An I for an I: Projection, Subjection, and Christian Antisemitism in The Service for Representing Adam.Richard J. Prystowsky - 1994 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 1 (1):139-157.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:An I for an I: Projection, Subjection, and Christian Antisemitism in The Service for RepresentingAdam1 Richard J. Prystowsky Irvine Valley College You know well enough how to look in a mirror: Now look at this hand for me, and tell If my heart is sick or healthy. The Servicefor Representing Adam Far from experience producing his idea of the Jew, it was the latter which explained his experience. If (...)
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    The Quranic Jesus: Prophet and Scapegoat.John Ranieri - 2019 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 24 (1):183-220.
    A major theme in René Girard’s work involves the role of the Bible in exposing the scapegoating practices at the basis of culture. The God of the Bible is understood to be a God who takes the side of victims. The God of the Qur’an is also a defender of victims, an idea that recurs throughout the text in the stories of messengers and prophets. In a number of ways, Jesus is unique among the prophets mentioned in the Qur’an. It (...)
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    Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Hirsi Ali: Why the Unholy Trinity Was Driven Out of the Netherlands.Henri Beunders - 2008 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 15:201-219.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Hirsi AliWhy the Unholy Trinity Was Driven Out of the NetherlandsHenri Beunders (bio)“Vulnerability” and “tolerance” are pretty vague notions. A lot of suggestions, images, and good intentions cling to them, while scientific clarity is virtually absent.The same goes for the Netherlands. Abroad, my country had the image of a tolerant, liberal, and free society, a place where things could be said and done that were forbidden (...)
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    Mimesis, Violence, and Socially Engaged Buddhism: Overture to a Dialogue.Leo D. Lefebure - 1996 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3 (1):121-140.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Mimesis, Violence, and Socially Engaged Buddhism: Overture to a Dialogue Leo D. Lefebure University ofSaint Mary ofthe Lake René Girard's analysis ofdesire, mimetic rivalry, and the surrogate victim mechanism seeks to transform human consciousness in order to overcome seemingly intractable patterns ofrivalry and violence. In this project the Buddhist tradition, with its long commitment to nonviolence, its age-old suspicion of ordinary views of the self, and its (...)
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    The One by Whom Scandal Comes.Malcolm B. DeBevoise (ed.) - 2014 - Michigan State University Press.
    “Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers.” In Girard’s mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else’s desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the loss of reciprocity between humans but (...)
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    "With a Rod or in the Spirit of Love and Gentleness?": Paul and the Rhetoric of Expulsion in 1 Corinthians 5.Dizdar Drasko - 2004 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 11 (1):161-180.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:"WITH A ROD OR IN THE SPIRIT OF LOVE AND GENTLENESS?" PAUL AND THE RHETORIC OF EXPULSION IN 1 CORINTHIANS 5 Dizdar Drasko Australian Catholic University II "n 1 Corinthians 5 Paul is dealing with a serious case of sexual.misconduct. He is understood to be urging the expulsion ofa member of the church for incest. Incest is, of course, a serious sexual crime, universally abhorred and prohibited. It has (...)
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    Nietzsche contra Girard.Nidesh Lawtoo - 2024 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31 (1):145-176.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Nietzsche contra GirardAgonistic Steps for Mimetic StudiesNidesh Lawtoo (bio)It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy has hitherto been: a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche's exemplary position in the history of philosophy owes as much to the untimely content of his thought as to the heterogeneous forms he used (...)
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    Beyond Contagion of Violence: Passionate Love and Empathy in the Thought of René Girard and Max Scheler.Bogumił Strączek - 2021 - Human Studies 45 (1):157-172.
    In his last book René Girard depicts apocalypse as disclosure of mimetic violence that is world-ending. He claims that in times of violent pandemic we are not called to fight for this world, but follow Christ in his withdrawal from the world. However, such an assertion creates serious theoretical and practical issues for the effort to heal interhuman relations from the virus of mimetic hostility. I argue for the importance of restoring a foundational distinction between passionate love and (...)
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    A Hypothesis on the Origin of Trade: The Exchange of Lives for Sacrifice and Sex.Pablo Díaz-Morlán - 2022 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29 (1):165-187.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Hypothesis on the Origin of TradeThe Exchange of Lives for Sacrifice and SexPablo Díaz-Morlán (bio)introductionThe primary objective of this study is to propose a hypothesis regarding the origin of trade that will help to solve the enigma of why human groups, normally each other's enemies, stopped exchanging blows in order to exchange things. The complexity of this crucial step forward in the relationships between hostile primitive groups can (...)
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    The Neurology of Culture, or How We Move From Rage to Ritual in the Process of Hominization.Gregory J. Lobo - 2024 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31 (1):255-273.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Neurology of Culture, or How We Move From Rage to Ritual in the Process of HominizationGregory J. Lobo (bio)The most (or rather the only) effective form of reconciliation—that would stop this crisis, and save the community from total self-destruction—is the convergence of all collective anger and rage towards a random victim, a scapegoat, designated by mimetism itself, and unanimously adopted as such.—René Girard, Evolution and Conversion, 64.INTRODUCTIONHow do (...)
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    Divine but Not Sacred: A Girardian Answer to Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory.Lyle Enright - 2019 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (1):237-249.
    Though the literature on the topic has been slim, several recent commentators have identified a close affinity between the philosophical project of Giorgio Agamben, as articulated in his Homo Sacer series, and René Girard's theory of mimetic rivalry with its resolution through sacrificial scapegoating.1 Both are theories of social unity made possible through highly ritualized forms of exclusion. Girard's work posits desire and its conflictual consequences as the ultimate ground for all social systems, while Agamben views the same (...)
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    Flight of Desire.Scott Richard Lyons - 2024 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31 (1):27-51.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Flight of DesireThe Conversion of Sherman AlexieScott Richard Lyons (bio)Sherman Alexie's audacious arrival onto the Native American literary scene in the early 1990s felt like the start of something new—but it was also the end of something old: namely, the Native American Renaissance (NAR).1 Younger by a generation than the graying canonized figures of preceding decades—N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, among others—Alexie assumed the (...)
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    A Patchwork of Non-Integrated Others.Michael Elias - 2024 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31 (1):121-128.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Patchwork of Non-Integrated OthersMichael Elias (bio)It has been a long time since I first presented a paper at a Colloquium on Violence & Religion (COV&R) conference, in 1994 in Wiesbaden, entitled "Neck Riddles in Mimetic Theory." It discusses riddle stories in which a man sentenced to death saves his life by propounding to the judge a riddle that he cannot possibly solve, because it is based on (...)
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    Even now, now, very now.João Cezar de Castro Rocha - 2023 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30 (1):47-67.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:"Even now, now, very now"Mimesis's and Imitation's TemporalitiesJoão Cezar de Castro Rocha (bio)Had we but world enough and time.—Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"THE EMPIRE OF NOWNESSIn the contemporary world our lives seem to become ever more Girardian, and to such an extent that even everyday language speaks of this circumstance. I think especially of a tool that is omnipresent in our societies: One just has to listen carefully (...)
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    Spain from a Girardian Perspective.Ángel J. Barahona Plaza - 2018 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 25 (1):137-157.
    The history of Spain in the 20th and 21st century provides us with many examples of mimetic rivalry: the permanent conflict between peoples who inhabit a common territory, seeking their identity through the affirmation of differences. In the never-ending reciprocities that occur throughout the decades, with ferocious feuding between the left and right wings, and disputes between nationalities, we appreciate how the Girardian theses shine some light on conflictive and at times bloody relationships that would be difficult to (...)
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    Sacrificial and Nonsacrificial Mass Nonviolence.John Roedel - 2008 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 15:221-236.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Sacrificial and Nonsacrificial Mass NonviolenceJohn Roedel (bio)Have been awake since 2 a.m. God’s grace alone is sustaining me. I can see there is some grave defect in me somewhere which is the cause of all this. All round me is utter darkness.—M. K. Gandhi, diary entry, dated January 2, 1947.1During the last few years of Gandhi’s life, massive rioting verging on civil war tore India apart, despite Gandhi’s best (...)
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    The Fall of Satan, Rational Psychology, and the Division of Consciousness.Thomas Ryba - 2018 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 23 (2):301-337.
    This paper proposes a revision of Girard’s interpretation of Satan, along traditional theological lines. Appreciating the essential correctness of the Girardian characterization of mimēsis, it is an argument, contra Girard, that (1) Satan cannot be reduced to a mimetic process but is a hypostatic spiritual reality and, following from this, that (2) the origins of mimetic rivalry go back before the emergence of humankind and provide a model for human rivalry. Employing concepts drawn from Husserlian phenomenological (...)
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    Masculinity as Virility in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Work.Lahoucine Ouzgane - 1997 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 4 (1):1-13.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:MASCULINITY AS VIRILITY IN TAHAR BEN JELLOUN'S WORK Lahoucine Ouzgane University ofAlberta To be a woman is a natural infirmity and every woman gets used to it. To be a man is an illusion, an act of violence that requires no justification. (Ben Jelloun, The Sand Child, 70) Inthe last ten to fifteen years, scholarly attention to gender issues in.the Middle East and North Africa has been focused almost (...)
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    The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment.Samir Younés - 2012 - Routledge.
    If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase in number and intensity of such arguments threatens to destabilize the very grounds upon which judgment is supposed to rest, this book examines architectural judgment in its historical, cultural, (...)
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    Rethinking violence beyond war and peace: anthropo-ethics from Levinas to Girard.Geert Van Coillie - 2021 - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 82 (3):268-279.
    ABSTRACT Starting from a philosophical, literary and historical frame of reference (Heraclitus, Hegel, Tolstoy, and Clausewitz), the paper aims to find a ‘deconstructive’ and anthropo-ethical way out of the binary opposition of war and peace (Levinas and Girard). ‘Apocalyptic reasoning’, inspired by a biblical view of man, gives insight into (in/un)human violence, and opens up a new perspective on necessary and possible conversion.
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    When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel Treguer.Trevor Cribben Merrill (ed.) - 2014 - Michigan State University Press.
    In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that “our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity.” Globalization has unified the world, yet civil war and terrorism persist despite free trade and economic growth. Because of mimetic desire and the rivalry it generates, asserts Girard, “whether we’re talking about marriage, friendship, professional relationships, issues with (...)
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    Violence, Anarchy, and Scripture: Jacques Ellul and René Girard.Matthew Pattillo - 2004 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 11 (1):25-54.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:VIOLENCE, ANARCHY, AND SCRIPTURE: JACQUES ELLUL AND RENÉ GIRARD Matthew Patullo Princeton Theological Seminary This essay will examine the personal and social consequences ofsin, Biblically defined, and will contend that Christian faith necessitates a rejection of the secular political order. Exploring and contrasting the thought of René Girard and Jacques Ellul, we will demonstrate that Girard's mimetic theory supplies crucial theoretical underpinnings for Ellul's theology. Ellul, in turn, (...)
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    Shakespeare e il teatro dell'intelligenza.Bottiroli Giovanni - 2018 - Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 6 (1):73-98.
    This article aims to compare the heuristic potentials of two different theories of desire, with reference to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The first theory is that of mimetic desire, proposed by René Girard; the second theory is the one elaborated by Freud and Lacan, a theory of which we emphasize the conception of identity in terms of identification and the distinction between the Imaginary and Symbolic registers. The crisis of the Degree together with the unleashing of rivalry represent a (...)
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    Scandal and Imitation In Matthew, Kierkegaard, and Girard.David McCracken - 1997 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 4 (1):146-162.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:SCANDAL AND IMITATION IN MATTHEW, KIERKEGAARD, AND GIRARD David McCracken University ofWashington Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest, but his resemblance was insufficient for the first- or secondplace prize. He finished third, and thus created a small scandal: the judges—experts on Charlie Chaplin—proved to be so inept that they could not recognize the genuine article1. The simple, mimetic entertainment of a look-alike contest can become (...)
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    Ibsen's Drama of Self-Sacrifice.William A. Johnsen - 1996 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3 (1):141-161.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ibsen's Drama of Self-Sacrifice William A. Johnsen Michigan State University Henrik Ibsen, like Flaubert, is a fundamental precursor of all subsequent modern literature. His development, which takes place over a lifetime of playwriting, is nevertheless only obscurely recognized in theories ofthe modern. Critics quarrel about his antecedents: Scribe, Feydeau, as well as Norwegian and Scandinavian dramatists and poets. Yet nothing in any of his predecessors could prepare one for (...)
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    When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel Treguer.René Girard - 2014 - Michigan State University Press.
    In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that “our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity.” Globalization has unified the world, yet civil war and terrorism persist despite free trade and economic growth. Because of mimetic desire and the rivalry it generates, asserts Girard, “whether we’re talking about marriage, friendship, professional relationships, issues with (...)
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    The King and the Crowd: Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty in the French Revolution.Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly - 1996 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3 (1):67-83.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The King and the Crowd: Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty in the French Revolution Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly Stanford University We French cannot really think about politics or philosophy or literature without remembering that all this— politics, philosophy, literature—began, in the modem world, under the sign of a crime. A crime was committed in France in 1793. They killed a good and entirely likable king who was the incarnation of (...)
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