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To Double Business Bound - Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology (Paperback): Rene Girard

To Double Business Bound - Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology (Paperback)

Rene Girard

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An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis ...was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

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Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1988
First published:	1979
Authors:	Rene Girard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-3655-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8018-3655-7
Barcode:	9780801836558