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Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the origin of culture and religion is reunited in the contemporary world by means of a reinterpretation of Christianity and an understanding of the intrinsically violent nature of human beings. He also offers provocative re-readings of Biblical and literary texts and responds to statements by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins. Including an introduction by the authors, this is a revealing text by one of the most original thinkers of our time.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Life of the Mind
- Chapter 2 ‘A Theory by Which to Work’: The Mimetic Mechanism
- Chapter 3 The Symbolic Species
- Chapter 4 Dialogues and Criticism: From Frazer to Lévi-Strauss
- Chapter 5 Method, Evidence and Truth
- Chapter 6 The Scandal of Christianity
- Chapter 7 Modernity, Postmodernity and Beyond
- Chronology of Girard's Life
- List of Girard's Publications
- Index