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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828148303321

Autore

Goodhart Sandor

Titolo

The prophetic law : essays in Judaism, Girardianism, literary studies, and the ethical / / Sandor Goodhart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-413-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

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

part one. Dialogue among Girardians -- part two. Girardian reading and the scriptural -- part three. Girardian reading and the literary -- part four. Girardian reading and the ethical.

Sommario/riassunto

To read literature is to read the way literature reads. René Girard's immense body of work supports this thesis bountifully. Whether engaging the European novel, ancient Greek tragedy, Shakespeare's plays, or Jewish and Christian scripture, Girard teaches us to read prophetically, not by offering a method he has developed, but by presenting the methodologies they have developed, the interpretative readings already available within (and constitutive of) such bodies of classical writing. In The Prophetic Law, literary scholar, theorist, and critic Sandor Goodhart divides his essay