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René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, volume 1
This edited volume situates René Girard in relation to the Western philosophical tradition. Each chapter engages the French anthropologist in dialogue with a key figure from the history of Western philosophy, from Plato to Kierkegaard. The pivotal question of René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition revolves around Girard’s assertion, “Since the attempt to understand religion on the basis of philosophy has failed, we ought to try the reverse method and read philosophy in the light of religion.” Major philosophers influenced Girard and contributed valuable insights into questions of desire, religion, violence, and the sacred. At the same time, he felt that Western philosoph...
Religious Identities and the Global South
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of religious identities in the Global South. Drawing on literature in various fields, Felix Wilfred analyzes how religious identities intersect with the processes of globalization, modernity, and postmodernity. He illustrates how the study of religion in the Global North often revolves around questions of secularism and fundamentalism, whereas a neo-Orientalist quality often attends study of religion in the Global South. These approaches and theorizing fail to incorporate the experiences of lived religion in the South, especially in Asia. Historically, the religions in the South have played a highly significant role in resistance to the domination by the colonial forces, an important reason for the continued attachment of the peoples of the South to their religious universe. This book puts the two regions and their scholarly norms in conversation with one another, exploring the social, political, cultural, and economic implications.
Religion in Reason
This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries’s work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy.
The Sacred and the Political
What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by René Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'.
The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation
One of the temptations of the preacher is to make all conversations about grace too “nice”. But a true preacher of grace, like Carlos, knows that this does not help people grow in faith at all. In this book, Carlos continues his ambitious, multi-volume quest to make it possible to live the Christian faith authentically without either dumbing down our intelligence or forcing us into a Stockholm syndrome of speaking “well” while tamping down the realities through which we are really living. Hence, Carlos has put his nets deep into the life experiences of different groups of those who have lost, of those for whom the outrage of death is a constant reality, and who have had to learn a ne...
The Challenge of God
In view of the double vocative that characterizes the relation of Creator to creature, this book offers critiques of modern and postmodern philosophy for the ways in which they have separated philosophy, theology, and spirituality. This collection examines the complicated relationship of God to Being and the meaning of Revelation, as well as highlighting the context and the role of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. Discussions include the Catholic Principle and its relevance in contemporary times, and Christian epic visionaries such as Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce, providing scholars a forum to debate their theological identity and its meaning for future studies. This volume contributes a unique engagement from many perspectives with the Catholic intellectual tradition in its philosophical, theological, spiritual, literary, and artistic dimensions.
Mimesis, (in)justiça e o direito como regulação da metamorfose
Este é um livro sobre a inveja e sua relação com a experiência da justiça. Nele se busca analisar o problema da 'inveja' e suas relações com a teoria da justiça, a teoria política contemporânea e o fenômeno judiciário, bem como cotejar a relação entre a noção de 'inveja-mimética' e o 'senso de injustiça'. De modo mais objetivo, o problema específico aqui enfrentado é o de teorizar acerca do papel do Direito na estabilização e na imunização da inveja mediante a institucionalidade do próprio Direito, sem ignorar o fenômeno contemporâneo da internet e seus efeitos nas relações intersubjetivas da sociedade contemporânea.
Studi Sartriani – XVI/2022 – Sartre e le psicobiografie. La scrittura dell’esistenza
La scrittura dell’esistenza è un luogo tematico molto caro a Sartre e percorre come un filo rosso tutto l’arco della sua vita, come si può vedere nella celebre autobiografia Les Mots fino alla splendida e monumentale opera dedicata a Gustave Flaubert, L’idiot de la famille. Al centro vi è l’idea d’infanzia concepita non tanto come tappa evolutiva o residuo archeologico, quanto piuttosto come presenza inassimilabile che l’esistenza ha il compito di riprendere incessantemente. Una dialettica sempre aperta tra passato e futuro, tra libertà e destino, tra invenzione e ripetizione, segna il metodo individuato da Sartre per comprendere un soggetto che, a partire da una situazione alienante, cerca sempre nuove possibilità per esercitare liberamente la sua praxis.
Lectura de Al este del Edén des de la perspectiva de René Girard i de la història dels efectes del text bíblic
Lectura de «Al este del Edén» des de la perspectiva de René Girard i de la història dels efectes del text bíblic és una interpretació de la novel·la homònima del Premi Nobel de literatura John Steinbeck (Califòrnia 1902 - Nova York 1968). Partint de l'hermenèutica de l'historiador i crític literari René Girard (Avinyó 1923) i dels conceptes bàsics de desig mimètic, boc emissari i revelació, aquest estudi fa una anàlisi de la novel·la de Steinbeck que posa de manifest com aquest clàssic de la generació perduda americana actualitza el conegut passatge de la mort d'Abel al llibre del Gènesi. La fidelitat al missatge del text original en aquesta obra ens pot ajudar a relle...
Violence des dieux, violence de l'homme
Boucs émissaires, violences sacrificielles, désir mimétique, autant de thèmes que René Girard (1923-2015) n’a cessé d’explorer et qui sont devenus des ressources essentielles pour notre compréhension des sociétés. L'anthropologie mimétique, dont il a posé les bases, a en effet eu des échos multiples dans les sciences humaines et les religions. Avec ce livre, Bernard Perret, entreprend une présentation éloquente de ce vaste chantier théorique. Il éclaire notamment la fonction et la signification de la violence dans les rapports humains, des origines à nos jours, tout en explorant les liens et les différences entre la pensée de Girard et celle d'autres grands auteurs du ...
