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To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology (European Thought)
To Double Business Bound Essays on Literature Mimesis and Anthropology - European Thought
Author: Rene Girard
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, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780485113433
ISBN-10: 0485113430
Publication Date: 12/2000
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Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Book Type: Hardcover
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