Can We Survive Our Origins? : Readings in Rene Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred by Pierpaolo Antonello
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Author: Pierpaolo Antonello
Page Count: 388 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 2015
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781611861495
File size: 34 Mb
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Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the new atheists )? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage and cope with the intrinsically violent runaway dynamic that characterizes human social organization in all periods of human history? Is violence decreasing in this time of secular modernity post-Christendom (as argued by Steven Pinker and others)? Or are we, rather, at increased and even apocalyptic risk from our enhanced powers of action and our decreased socio-symbolic protections? Rene Girard s mimetic theory has been slowly but progressively recognized as one of the most striking breakthrough contributions to twentieth-century critical thinking in fundamental anthropology: in particular for its power to model and explain violent sacralities, ancient and modern. The present volume sets this power of explanation in an evolutionary and Darwinian frame. It asks: How far do cultural mechanisms of controlling violence, which allowed humankind to cross the threshold of hominizationi.e., to survive and develop in its evolutionary emergencestill represent today a default setting that threatens to destroy us? Can we transcend them and escape their field of gravity? Should we look toor should we look beyondDarwinian survival? Whatand where (if anywhere)is salvation?"
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