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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807233803321

Autore

Dumouchel Paul

Titolo

Ambivalence of scarcity and other essays / / Paul Dumouchel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-417-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

Disciplina

616.9362

Soggetti

Mimesis in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. On Economy and Economics""; ""The Ambivalence of Scarcity""; ""Indifference and Envy: Girard and the Anthropological Analysis of Modern Economy""; ""A Mimetic Rereading of Helmut Schoeck�s Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour""; ""Homo mimeticus as an Economic Agent""; ""Part 2. On Mimetic Theory""; ""Mimetism and Autonomy""; ""Violence and Nonviolence""; ""Differences and Paradoxes: Reflections on Love and Violence in Girard�s Work""; ""Creation and Conversion in Girard""; ""Mimetic Theory: Concepts and Models""