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Evolution of Desire : A Life of René Girard

René Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era-a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a "mimetic theory" of cultural origins and human behavior, ins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haven, Cynthia L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Magnetic North; Chapter 3. Dark Times in the City of Light; Chapter 4. Everything Is Possible; Chapter 5. Mankind Is Not so Kind; Chapter 6. The Pleasure of His Company; Chapter 7. Everything Came to Me at Once; Chapter 8. The French Invasion; Chapter 9. Le SystÃm̈e-Girard; Chapter 10. The Zero Hour of Culture; Chapter 11. Lotus Land; Chapter 12. The New Darwin of the Human Sciences; Chapter 13. Who Asks about the Souls of These Men?; Chapter 14. Terra Incognita; Postscript: Hand in Hand; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Notes; Index.