The sacred and the political : (Record no. 3141)
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| fixed length control field | 03167cam a22003137i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781628925968 (HB) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1628925965 (HB) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.6 |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The sacred and the political : |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 268 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Little did we know ... when the idea of the book first took form, that just over two years later the volume would become a way of celebrating the life of René Girard, who died on November 4, 2015, while this manuscript was in production. Girard leaves an enormous intellectual legacy, which the present volume seeks to honour, interrogate, and keep alive."--Acknowledgments. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: the power of sacrifice: René Girard and the political / Antonio Cerella -- Aristotle on mimesis and violence: things hidden since the foundation of literary theory / Arata Takeda -- René Girard and Thomas Aquinas on prophecy and the purging of the notion of justice / Paul M. Rogers -- Unlikely twins? Machiavelli and Girard on violence, crisis and the origins of the state / Ernesto Gallo -- René Girard, human nature and political conflict / Kent Enns -- Spinoza, Girard and the possibility of a purely immanent democracy / Stéphane Vinolo -- René Girard's mimetic theory: an "anti-political theology"? / Michael Kirwan -- A "theoretical double"; violence, religion and social order in Schmitt and Girard / Andrea Salvatore -- Mimesis and Sartre's Critique of dialectical reason / Paul Dumouchel -- The sacred and the secular: René Girard and Gianni Vattimo on modernity and violence / Pierpaolo Antonello -- The myth of origin: archaeology and history in the work of Agamben and Girard / Antonio Cerella -- The age of panic: on mimetic post-modernity / Emanuele Antonelli. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 Rene 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'. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Violence |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Violence |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mimesis in art. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mimesis in literature. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion and civilization. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mimesis in art |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mimesis in literature |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion and civilization |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Violence |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Violence |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brighi, Elisabetta, |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cerella, Antonio, |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Girard, René, |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/09/2023 | HM1116 .S33 2016 | 0163601 | Books |
| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/09/2023 | HM1116 .S33 2016 | 0163602 | Books |