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Michigan STATE University Press
ISBN-10
1611861497
ISBN-13
9781611861495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
207768674
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Number of Pages
388 Pages
Publication Name
Can We Survive Our Origins? : Readings in René Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Individual Philosophers, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Comparative Religion, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Hermeneutics
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Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Series
Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Ser.
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Trade Paperback
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0.9 in
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18.1 Oz
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9 in
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6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2014-941652
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23
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FROM THE FOREWORD: "The importance of studies such as the ones contained in this book is that they both underline the urgency of the cultural crisis and open up impressive possibilities for conversation between Girardians and others in the mainstream of our discourse. If Girard and most of the contributors to this volume are right, such conversation is anything but a luxury." --Right Reverend Rowan Williams, former Archibishiop of Canterbury, FROM THE FOREWORD: The importance of studies such as the ones contained in this book is that they both underline the urgency of the cultural crisis and open up impressive possibilities for conversation between Girardians and others in the mainstream of our discourse. If Girard and most of the contributors to this volume are right, such conversation is anything but a luxury." —Right Reverend Rowan Williams, former Archibishiop of Canterbury
Dewey Decimal
303.372
Table Of Content
Contents Foreword / Rowan Williams Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. The Programming of Origins: Sacred Violence and Its Legacy A Covenant among Beasts: Human and Chimpanzee Violence in Evolutionary Perspective / Paul Dumouchel Liminal Crises: The Origins of Cultural Order, the Default Mechanisms of Survival, and the Pedagogy of the Sacrificial Victim / Pierpaolo Antonello Victims, Sacred Violence, and Reconciliation: A Darwinian-Girardian Reading of Human Peril and Human Possibility / Harald Wydra Empire of Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in American Culture / Jon Pahl and James Wellman Part Two. Rebooting Evolutionary Survival: Is Christianity Crucial? From Closed Societies to the Open Society: Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism / Wolfgang Palaver Girard, the Gospels, and the Symmetrical Inversion of the Founding Murder / Paul Gifford Survival and Salvation: A Girardian Reading of Christian Hope in Evolutionary Perspective / Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly Part Three. Violent Reciprocities and Peace-Making in the Contemporary World Northern Ireland: Breaking the Inheritance of Conflict and Violence / Duncan Morrow Communities of Contrast: Modeling Reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Derick Wilson Girardian Reflections on Israel and Palestine / Mel Konner South Africa: Positive Mimesis and the Turn toward Peace / Leon Marincowitz Peace-Making in Practice and Theory: An Encounter with René Girard / Scott Atran Part Four. Between Progress and Abyss: Our Modernity Nuclear Apocalypse: The Balance of Terror and Girardian "Misrecognition" / Jean-Pierre Dupuy The "Intermediary" Case / Margo Boenig-Liptsin Misrecognition of "Misrecognition" / Paul Dumouchel Survival without Salvation? / Paul Gifford Girard, Climate Change, and Apocalypse / Michael Northcott A New Heaven and a New Earth: Apocalypticism and Its Alternatives / Michael Kirwan About the Authors Index
Synopsis
Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the 'new atheists')? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage and cope with the intrinsically violent runaway dynamic that characterizes human social organization in all periods of human history? Is violence decreasing in this time of secular modernity post-Christendom (as argued by Steven Pinker and others)? Or are we, rather, at increased and even apocalyptic risk from our enhanced powers of action and our decreased socio-symbolic protections? Rene Girard's mimetic theory has been slowly but progressively recognized as one of the most striking breakthrough contributions to twentieth-century critical thinking in fundamental anthropology: in particular for its power to model and explain violent sacralities, ancient and modern. The present volume sets this power of explanation in an evolutionary and Darwinian frame. It 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? What--and where (if anywhere)--is salvation?, Evolutionary emergence has (in Girardian understanding) programmed into its late-arriving human agents and actors a capacity to generate types and levels of violence that risk bringing Homo sapiens , together with their environing cosmic habitat, to self-destruction. How so? With what perils, what defenses? What are the chances of avoiding some looming and terminal apocalypse? Can we, in short, "survive" our origins?
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BL600.C3 2015
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