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UNINA9910955534503321 |
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Autore |
Girard René <1923-2015.> |
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Titolo |
Resurrection from the underground : Feodor Dostoevsky / / René Girard ; edited and translated by James G. Williams |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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9781628951080 |
1628951087 |
9781609173203 |
1609173201 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (122 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Rene Girard since 1996 / by James G. Williams -- Rene Girard / by James G. Williams -- A biographical prologue -- Chronology of Feodor Dostoevsky -- Resurrection from the underground: Feodor Dostoevsky -- Descent into the inferno -- Underground psychology -- Underground metaphysics -- Resurrection -- Mimetic desire in the underground. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky's work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author's "underground," a site of isolation, alienation, and resentment. Brilliantly translated, this book is a testament to Girard's remarkable engagement with Dostoevsky's work, through which he discusses numerous aspects of the human condition, including desire, which Girard argues is "triangular" or "mimetic"-copied from models or mediators whose objects of desire become our own. Girard's interdisciplinary approach allows him to shed new light on religion, spirit |
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