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

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

René Girard

256 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
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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, Dosto...

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