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When These Things Begin - Conversations with Michel Treguer (Paperback)
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When These Things Begin - Conversations with Michel Treguer (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series
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In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer,
Rene 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." Globalisation 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 neighbours or matters of
national unity, human relations are always under threat." Literary
masters including Marivaux, Dostoevsky, and Joyce understood this,
as did archaic religion, which warded off violence with blood
sacrifice. Christianity brought a new understanding of sacrifice,
giving rise not only to modern rationality and science but also to
a fragile system that is, in Girard's words, "always teetering
between a new golden age and a destructive apocalypse." Treguer, a
sceptic of mimetic theory, wonders: "Is what he's telling me
true...or is it just a nice story, a way of looking at things?" In
response, Girard makes a compelling case for his theory.
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