A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the
French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist
Rene Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars
(mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical
"difference") with the help of examples from literature and
philosophy. This book also offers an overview of Rene Girard's life
and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential
and spiritual insights into one's own mimetic entanglements.
Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard's
theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the
relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of
capital punishment. Mimetic theory is placed within the context of
current cultural and political debates like the relationship
between religion and modernity, terrorism, the death penalty, and
gender issues. Drawing textual examples from European literature
(Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, Storm, Flaubert,
Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre,
Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver uses mimetic theory to
explore the themes they present. A highly accessible book, this
text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard's
widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its
applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that
provides the reader with an overview of the development and
discussion of mimetic theory until the present day.
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