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Mimesis and Sacrifice - Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (Paperback)
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Mimesis and Sacrifice - Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (Paperback)
Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
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Central to identity, personal responsibility, economic systems,
theology, and the political and military imaginaries, the practice
of sacrifice has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Mimesis and
Sacrifice brings together scholars from the humanities, military,
business, and social sciences to examine the role that sacrifice
plays in different present-day settings, from economics to gender
relations. Inspired by Rene Girard's work, chapters explore (i) the
extent to which the social character of human living makes us
mimetic, (ii) whether mimesis necessarily leads to competitive
aggression, (iii) whether aggression must be defused by aggressive
sacrificial rituals-and whether all sacrifice has this aim, and
(iv) the role of the "second lesson of the cross" (as Girard called
it), the lesson of self-giving for others, in addressing present
societal problems. By investigating sacrifice across this span of
arenas and questions yet within one volume, Mimesis and Sacrifice
presents a new appreciation of its influence and consequences in
the world today, contributing not only to mimetic theory but to
greater understanding of which societal arrangement enable us to
live well together and what hobbles that goal.
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