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Toward An Islamic Theology Of Nonviolence - In Dialogue With René Girard

by Mokrani Adnane Mokrani

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 He analyzes the Qurâ€™anic text and classical and modern exegetical literature, focusing on the Qurâ€™anic narratives, then extends his research to the history of Islam, removing the sacred character attributed to some events and human choices in order to disarm theology and dismantle the ideologies of power.
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Toward An Islamic Theology Of Nonviolence - In Dialogue With Rene Girard

by Adnane Mokrani

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 Offers the first systematic study of the Qurâ€™an and Islamic history in the light of RenÃ© Girardâ€™s mimetic theory. Addressing this gap in Girardian studies, Adnane Mokrani aims to develop an Islamic theology that goes beyond just war theory to adopt a radical nonviolent approach.
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Evolution Of Desire - A Life Of Rene Girard

by Cynthia L Haven

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 Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of RenÃ© Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most controversial and original minds.
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Battling To The End - Conversations With Benoit Chantre

by René Girard

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 Engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. This title shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. It pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun.
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Playing Sociology - Theory And Games For Coping With Mimetic Crisis And Social Conflict

by Martino Doni e Stefano Tomelleri

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 In Playing Sociology: Theory and Games for Coping with Mimetic Crisis and Social Conflict, Martino Doni and Stefano Tomelleri employ gaming as a lens through which they analyze the underlying and sometimes hidden aspects of social relationships and conventions.
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Rene Girard And The Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1 - Philosophy, Violence, And Mimesis

by Andreas Wilmes e George A. Dunn

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 The first collective scholarly effort at situating RenÃ© 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.
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The World Of Rene Girard - Interviews

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 In 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with RenÃ© Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a new context of research on self-organizing systems.
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Cormac Mccarthy - An American Apocalypse

by Markus Wierschem

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 This definitive assessment of Cormac McCarthyâ€™s novels captures the interactions among the literary and mythic elements, the social dynamics of violence, and the natural world in The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, and The Road.
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Mimetic Theory And Its Shadow - Girard, Milbank, And Ontological Violence

by Scott Cowdell

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 Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishnessâ€"an ontological violence.
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Alterity

by Jean-Michel Oughourlian

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 Through the lens of mimetic theory, distinguished French psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian shows how to spot and address rivalry in our lives and become open to healthier, more genuine relationships.
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Violence And The Oedipal Unconscious - Vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis

by Nidesh Lawtoo

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 Reframes current debates on (new) media violence by tracing the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical vicissitudes of the â€œcatharsis hypothesisâ€ from antiquity to modernity and into the present.
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Mimetic Theory And World Religions

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 Meanwhile, his book Sacrifice, a reading of conflict and sacrificial resolution in the Vedic Brahmanas, suggests that mimetic theoryâ€™s insights also resonate with several non-Western religious and spiritual traditions.
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Blackthorne Faire

by John Adcox; Illustration: Leighanne Schneider

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Violence And The Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2 - The Affective Hypothesis

by Nidesh Lawtoo

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 In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego.
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The Super Ladies

by Susan Petrone

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How To Think About Catastrophe - Toward A Theory Of Enlightened Doomsaying

by Jean-Pierre Dupuy

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 How can we look forward and work past the dire position we now find ourselves in to achieve a sustainable future? This volume examines different kinds of catastrophes, presenting a new way of thinking about the future as it explores catastrophe and the human response.
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Mendel

by Damone Bester

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Desire And Imitation In International Politics

by Jodok Troy

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 This volume not only contributes to the study of conflict based on the imitation of the desire of others among international polities, but also proposes in its conceptualization that it is worth looking at studies of agency and structure, normative change, peace, and reconciliation.
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Philosophy'S Violent Sacred - Heidegger And Nietzsche Through Mimetic Theory

by Duane Armitage

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 Armitage further argues that Girardâ€™s thinking solves the very problems that continental and postmodern thinking sought (but failed) to solve, namely the problems of violence and victimization, particularly within the context of the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Dionysus, Christ, And The Death Of God, Volume 2 - Christianity And Modernity

by Giuseppe Fornari

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 It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings.
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Dionysus, Christ, And The Death Of God, Volume 1 - The Great Mediations Of The Classical World

by Giuseppe Fornari

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 It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings.
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Oedipus; Or, The Legend Of A Conqueror

by Marie Delcourt

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 Marie Delcourtâ€™s brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robertâ€™s influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later.
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The Oedipus Casebook - Reading Sophocles' Oedipus The King

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 Helene Peet Foley calls him â€œthe kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize.â€ The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus.
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Shakespearean Cultures - Latin America And The Challenges Of Mimesis In Non-Hegemonic Circumstances

by Joao Cezar De Castro Rocha

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 At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of RenÃ© Girardâ€™s work.
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