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  • Desiring Machines

    Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction

    Edited by Thomas Ryba, Professor Sandor Goodhart ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    As artificial intelligence assumes increasing prominence in our lives, a host of questions arise, particularly if one holds a view of humans as inherently social or mimetic, such as René Girard. Does the potential for self-awareness in artificial intelligence come with mimetic desire in the way Girard claims it does for human beings?Thomas Ryba and Sandor Goodhart bring together a team of renowned ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • René Girard and Creative Mimesis

    by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran, Richard McGuigan, Pablo Bandera, Andrew O'Shea, Francis Tobienne Jr., Petra Steinmair-Pösel, Christina Biava, Martha Reineke, Patrick Imbert, Joachim Duyndam, Robin Collins, André Lascaris, Thomas E. Reynolds ...
    For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • René Girard and Creative Reconciliation

    by Cameron Thomson, Nadia Delicata, Jon Pahl, Sue-Anne Hess, Eugene Webb, Frank Richardson, Kathryn Frost, Leonhard Praeg, Steve Moore, Rupa Menon, Duncan Morrow, Cynthia Stirbys, Angela Kiraly, Nikolaus Wandinger, Miguel de Las Casas Rolland, Pete Smith, Sandor Goodhart, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the ... Read more

    $141.79 USD