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Towards Reconciliation
Taschenbuch von Paul Gifford
Sprache: Englisch

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Conceived at the moment of Girard¿s death in November 2015, and written up in the period of strategic stock-taking ¿after Girard¿, this book aims to suggest briefly and clearly to a wide English-speaking audience that: (i) Girard has in fact cracked the enigma of the obscurely ¿foundational¿ complicity between violence and the sacred; (ii) that his ¿mimetic theory¿ and his writings on biblical texts, when read as a fundamental ¿anthropological argument¿ continuous with Darwin, bring formidable new light to a vast range of enigmas and problems: terrorist violence, the new atheism, the function of world¿s oldest temple, the Good Friday Agreement¿
In counterpoint to this (largely) ¿dark¿ matter, they illuminate superbly (¿from below¿) the nature and ways of creation, revelation, redemption¿ and thus also of Reconciliation. Such insights provide a novel and exciting resource for scanning the knots, the black holes and the hidden ¿sacrificial¿ logic that still secretly shapes cultural, social and political life today. The analytical tool-set Girard supplies can help shape the key dialogues needed to prepare delivering practices of reconciliation--and to avoid auto-generated ¿apocalypses¿-- in the world of tomorrow.
Conceived at the moment of Girard¿s death in November 2015, and written up in the period of strategic stock-taking ¿after Girard¿, this book aims to suggest briefly and clearly to a wide English-speaking audience that: (i) Girard has in fact cracked the enigma of the obscurely ¿foundational¿ complicity between violence and the sacred; (ii) that his ¿mimetic theory¿ and his writings on biblical texts, when read as a fundamental ¿anthropological argument¿ continuous with Darwin, bring formidable new light to a vast range of enigmas and problems: terrorist violence, the new atheism, the function of world¿s oldest temple, the Good Friday Agreement¿
In counterpoint to this (largely) ¿dark¿ matter, they illuminate superbly (¿from below¿) the nature and ways of creation, revelation, redemption¿ and thus also of Reconciliation. Such insights provide a novel and exciting resource for scanning the knots, the black holes and the hidden ¿sacrificial¿ logic that still secretly shapes cultural, social and political life today. The analytical tool-set Girard supplies can help shape the key dialogues needed to prepare delivering practices of reconciliation--and to avoid auto-generated ¿apocalypses¿-- in the world of tomorrow.
Über den Autor
Paul Gifford is Buchanan Emeritus Professor of the University of St Andrews, where for ten years he directed the University¿s Institute of Cultural Identity Studies. He worked with René Girard as Invited Scholar at Stanford University and as Visiting Research Fellow of the Girardian foundation, Imitatio. He has co-edited two collections of Girardian essays published by Michigan University Press: Can We Survive Our Origins? (2015) and How We Became Human (2015).
Zusammenfassung
A compelling analysis of the connection between violence and the sacred, using René Girard's mimetic theory to point the way towards Christian reconciliation.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780227177075
ISBN-10: 022717707X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gifford, Paul
Hersteller: James Clarke & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Gifford
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,257 kg
Artikel-ID: 121955516
Über den Autor
Paul Gifford is Buchanan Emeritus Professor of the University of St Andrews, where for ten years he directed the University¿s Institute of Cultural Identity Studies. He worked with René Girard as Invited Scholar at Stanford University and as Visiting Research Fellow of the Girardian foundation, Imitatio. He has co-edited two collections of Girardian essays published by Michigan University Press: Can We Survive Our Origins? (2015) and How We Became Human (2015).
Zusammenfassung
A compelling analysis of the connection between violence and the sacred, using René Girard's mimetic theory to point the way towards Christian reconciliation.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780227177075
ISBN-10: 022717707X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gifford, Paul
Hersteller: James Clarke & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Gifford
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,257 kg
Artikel-ID: 121955516
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