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The Kierkegaard-Girard option /

In an age of sharply increasing cultural polarization that has led many people to consider retreat into enclaves of the like-minded, this book seeks to persuade its readers that we need better quality conversations across ideological camps, and that the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and René Girard...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bellinger, Charles K., 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
Series:Mercer Kierkegaard series.
Subjects:
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855.
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993.
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Polarization (Social sciences) > United States.
Theological anthropology > Christianity.
Table of Contents:
  • On the dedication to "That single individual" / by Søren Kierkegaard ; translated by Charles Bellinger
  • "The first stone" / by René Girard
  • Kierkegaard and mimetic theory
  • Kierkegaard: Copernicus of the spirit
  • Kenneth Burke and the theory of scapegoating
  • Kenneth Burke's anthropology and ethics
  • The Joker is Satan, and so are we: Girard and The Dark Knight
  • Kierkegaard's critique of individualism
  • The Kierkegaard-Girard option.