An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's "Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production. Girard's point o departure is what he calles "mimesis," the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the "scapegoating mechanism," in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order. How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in "Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud--if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but becaus ehuman beings "wanted it. The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history--the paradox that violance has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.
6 有用 莫水田 2016-02-27 21:31:39
Girard的书还没有被翻译成中文吗?他在学界的不受重视是一个比较有趣的谜。我猜是因为他讲的道理大家都一看就懂,是真正的道理,所以显得不高深,没有继续发挥阐释把人转晕的能力哈哈
3 有用 雪猫 2022-02-23 00:53:22
Rene Girard的书比较好读,因为他每一本书基本上都是在分别从不同的角度重复他的主要观点。他的观点其实用一句话来概括,就是所有的人类社会都必须要解决的一个最最基本的问题,即怎样避免让这个社会因为人与人之间的自相残杀而陷入崩溃。而这一点在他看来能够解释所有传统社会当中的宗教,巫术,以及各种禁忌和文化仪式,因为所有这些在他看来实际上都是在用一种象征性的手法把潜在的暴力因素从一个社会当中驱逐出去,... Rene Girard的书比较好读,因为他每一本书基本上都是在分别从不同的角度重复他的主要观点。他的观点其实用一句话来概括,就是所有的人类社会都必须要解决的一个最最基本的问题,即怎样避免让这个社会因为人与人之间的自相残杀而陷入崩溃。而这一点在他看来能够解释所有传统社会当中的宗教,巫术,以及各种禁忌和文化仪式,因为所有这些在他看来实际上都是在用一种象征性的手法把潜在的暴力因素从一个社会当中驱逐出去,从而使得一个社会不会因为类似于两个村子的人争夺一口水井这样的事情而打得你死我活。他的观点实际上相当于50%的施特劳斯政治哲学,或者严格来说他所探讨的问题其实就是施特劳斯所谓natural and conventional里面的conventional。当然他的问题意识归根结底也是来源于二十世纪的历史 (展开)
0 有用 兔芽兒 2020-12-13 21:50:31
读于TANG的课,很晕
3 有用 雪猫 2022-02-23 00:53:22
Rene Girard的书比较好读,因为他每一本书基本上都是在分别从不同的角度重复他的主要观点。他的观点其实用一句话来概括,就是所有的人类社会都必须要解决的一个最最基本的问题,即怎样避免让这个社会因为人与人之间的自相残杀而陷入崩溃。而这一点在他看来能够解释所有传统社会当中的宗教,巫术,以及各种禁忌和文化仪式,因为所有这些在他看来实际上都是在用一种象征性的手法把潜在的暴力因素从一个社会当中驱逐出去,... Rene Girard的书比较好读,因为他每一本书基本上都是在分别从不同的角度重复他的主要观点。他的观点其实用一句话来概括,就是所有的人类社会都必须要解决的一个最最基本的问题,即怎样避免让这个社会因为人与人之间的自相残杀而陷入崩溃。而这一点在他看来能够解释所有传统社会当中的宗教,巫术,以及各种禁忌和文化仪式,因为所有这些在他看来实际上都是在用一种象征性的手法把潜在的暴力因素从一个社会当中驱逐出去,从而使得一个社会不会因为类似于两个村子的人争夺一口水井这样的事情而打得你死我活。他的观点实际上相当于50%的施特劳斯政治哲学,或者严格来说他所探讨的问题其实就是施特劳斯所谓natural and conventional里面的conventional。当然他的问题意识归根结底也是来源于二十世纪的历史 (展开)
0 有用 兔芽兒 2020-12-13 21:50:31
读于TANG的课,很晕
6 有用 莫水田 2016-02-27 21:31:39
Girard的书还没有被翻译成中文吗?他在学界的不受重视是一个比较有趣的谜。我猜是因为他讲的道理大家都一看就懂,是真正的道理,所以显得不高深,没有继续发挥阐释把人转晕的能力哈哈