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  • Mimetic Theory and Film

    Edited by Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio, Dr. Chris Fleming ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque]. And yet, for a thinker whose career began by an engagement with literature, it came as a ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Modern Conspiracy

    The Importance of Being Paranoid

    by Dr. Emma A. Jane, Dr. Chris Fleming ...
    While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media.Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Mimesis, Movies, and Media

    Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 3

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, this third volume in the seriesshowcases the most groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research in mimetic theory, with a focus on well-known films, television series, and other media. Mimesis, Movies, and Media reaches beyond the traditional boundaries of continental theory to demonstrate ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2

    René Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love and Literature

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of René Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (2012). The previous collection has been acclaimed for demonstrating and showcasing Girard's mimetic theory at its inter-disciplinary best by bringing together scholars who apply Girard's insights in different ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • René Girard and Raymund Schwager

    Correspondence 1974-1991

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Joel Hodge, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Mathias Moosbrugger ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist René Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in French and as yet unpublished, let alone translated into English-between Girard and his major theological interlocutor Raymund Schwager SJ (1935 ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Does Religion Cause Violence?

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World

    Edited by Dr. Joel Hodge, Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Carly Osborn ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that 'religion' does not have a special relation to violence in opposition to culture, ideology or nationalism. Rather, religion and violence must be understood ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 1

    Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of René Girard's mimetic theory. The collection showcases the work of outstanding scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying and developing Girard's insights in a variety of fields. Girard's mimetic insight has provided a fruitful way for different ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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    Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ... Read more

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  • Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy

    by Bernard N. Schumacher ...
    Translated by Michael J. Miller ...
    This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Children of Lucifer

    The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism

    by Ruben van Luijk ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
    If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the details of which mainstream society imagines with a fascination ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Acts of Religion

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise ... Read more

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