Can We Survive Our Origins?

Readings in René Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred
Herausgeber: Antonello, Pierpaolo; Gifford, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book asks: How far do cultural mechanisms of controlling violence, which allowed humankind to cross the threshold of hominization - i.e., to survive and develop in its evolutionary emergence - still represent today a default setting that threatens to destroy us? Can we transcend them and escape their field of gravity? Should we look to - or should we look beyond - Darwinian survival?Ã

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781611861495
• ISBN-10: 1611861497
• Artikelnr.: 41904900

Autorenporträt

Pierpaolo Antonello is Reader in modern Italian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. With René Girard and João Cezar de Castro Rocha he coauthored Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture, and he is a member of the Research and Publications committees of Imitatio. Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor of French emeritus at the University of St Andrews, where he also was Departmental Chair for seven years and directed the Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies for ten years. He is a member of the French National Center for Scientific Research and former Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.