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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955534503321

Autore

Girard René <1923-2015.>

Titolo

Resurrection from the underground : Feodor Dostoevsky / / René Girard ; edited and translated by James G. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2012

ISBN

9781628951080

1628951087

9781609173203

1609173201

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsJames G. <1936->

Disciplina

891.73/3

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.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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