To Double Business Bound : Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

Girard, René

Johns Hopkins University Press（1988/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780801836558
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis ...was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Mimetic Desire of Paolo and Francesca
Chapter 2. Camus's Stranger Retried
Chapter 3. The Underground Critic
Chapter 4. Strategies of Madness—Nietzsche, Wagner, and Dostoevski
Chapter 5. Delirium as System
Chapter 6. Perilous Balance: A Comic Hypothesis
Chapter 7. The Plague in Literature and Myth
Chapter 8. Differentiation and Reciprocity in Lévi-Strauss and Contemporary Theory
Chapter 9. Violence and Representation in the Mythical Text
Chapter 10. An Interview with René Girard