The time has grown short : René Girard, or the last law /
In this exploration of Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoît Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans into dialogue with both Proust and Girard in order to push to its logical endpoint the idea of a back-and-forth movement from chaos to order.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Breakthroughs in mimetic theory.
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| Summary: | In this exploration of Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoît Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans into dialogue with both Proust and Girard in order to push to its logical endpoint the idea of a back-and-forth movement from chaos to order. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as "Le clocher de Combray: René Girard ou la derniere loi," in René Girard: la théorie mimétique : de l'apprentissage à l'apocalypse." The first version of this essay appeared in 2010 in an edited volume, René Girard: la théorie mimétique : de l'apprentissage à l'apocalypse (Presses universitaires de France). This version has been revised and expanded for publication as a separate volume. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 103 pages ; 16 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781611864267 1611864267 162896457X 9781628964578 |