Selfhood and Sacrifice René Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

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ISBN: 9781441118820 | 1441118829
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Copyright: 4/8/2010

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Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
From Self to Sacrifice: Girardian Theory
Division and Unity in Literary Space: The Romantic Fallacy	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
Debunking the Modern Subject	p. 29
Self and Other in Literary Structure	p. 34
Fusion and Separation: The Futility of the Romantic Spirit	p. 38
Underground Psychology: Dostoevsky's 'The Double'	p. 42
The Romantic Lie, and the Historical Struggle for Consciousness	p. 44
Failure to Gather: 'The Dostoyevskian Apocalypse'	p. 50
Authentic and Inauthentic Unity: Novelistic Conclusions	p. 53
Conclusion: The Spiritual and the Literary	p. 58
Division and Unity in Cultural Space: The Scapegoat Mechanism	p. 62
Introduction	p. 62
De-differentiation: The Link between Self and Sacrifice	p. 65
Some Characteristics of Violent Reciprocity	p. 68
Shakespeare's 'Mimetic Theory': The World as Stage	p. 70
Violence and Scapegoating: From Crisis to Resolution	p. 74
Mimesis and the Monstrous Double	p. 79
Bringing Together All Rites: The Janus Face of the Sacred	p. 81
Beyond Structuralism: Representation and Real Violence	p. 84
Conclusion: Reading Back In	p. 89
Negatings Subjectivity and History: Problems Within Girardian Theory	p. 94
Introduction	p. 94
Explaining Cultural Space by Reference to Literary Space	p. 97
History as Negating Negativity: The Legacy of Alexandre Kojève	p. 102
Interdividual Psychology: A Loss of Positive Inferiority?	p. 108
'The Death of Desire': Mimesis and the World as Will	p. 114
Dostoevsky's Conscious Attack on Rationalism	p. 120
Conclusion: Beyond Literary Space	p. 125
From Sacrifice to Self: Taylor's Philosophical Account
The Early Modern Period: Transposing the Old Cosmic Order	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
Taylor's St. Augustine: 'In Interiore Homine'	p. 135
Disengaged Reason and the Affirmation of Ordinary Life	p. 143
Right Use, Right Order: Innerworldly Asceticism	p. 149
Deism and the New Providential Order: Re-marking Difference	p. 154
Conclusion: 'Self-Love and Social'	p. 158
Rethinking Division and Unity: Subjectivity, Religion and the Current of Life	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
Sentiments and the Voice of Nature	p. 164
Expression and Originality: Combining Two Views of Nature	p. 170
'Self-divinisation' or the Demands of Expression?	p. 178
Religion and the History of Division	p. 183
Division and the Unity of Life: 'Unanimity Plus One'	p. 188
Conclusion: A Post-Romantic Vision	p. 193
Crisis and Unity in Moral Space: Identity and the Good	p. 198
Introduction	p. 198
Moral Space: Strong Value, Identity and Gaining Orientation	p. 203
Disenchantment: Modern Crisis, and Being Lost in Moral Space	p. 208
'Conclusions' in Moral Space: Craving, and the Unity of a Self	p. 216
Taylor's Dostoevsky: Positive and Negative Mediation	p. 222
Conclusion: The Best Account Possible	p. 226
Epilogue	p. 232
Bibliography	p. 259
Index to Part I	p. 269
Index to Part II	p. 274
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