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René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire, scapegoat mechanism and biblical demystification
Seminare, 2022 This article provides an overview of René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire, scapegoat mechanism and biblical demystification. It also attempts to explain the basic notions of his anthropology and to contextualize them in relation to the conceptions of
Bogumił Strączek
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Mimetic desire and scapegoat mechanism in sport [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica, 2012 BACKGROUND: The most fundamental question about sport is what is sport, what is its origin and its essence? Because sport is connected with the human being (there is no sport without human beings) different anthropological visions of human being result ...
Jernej Pisk
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ZygonThis article discusses René Girard’s “science of religion,” examining its central idea—variously called the scapegoat, victimage, or founding mechanism—and its role in the process of hominization in light of the neuroscientific concept of prefrontal ...
Gregory Joseph Lobo
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Just war theory and scapegoat mechanism: An analysis of missio Dei and social order
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis article examined Augustine’s just war theory through René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism, as posited in his theory of mimetic desire. Augustine, in his development of just war theory, adopted a realist approach to justify the ethical criteria for ...
Godfrey T. Baleng
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The Mimetic Desire. The Mechanism of the Scapegoat. To Cases in Korea
Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, 2018 In this paper we will analyze the thinking of the French philosopher René Girard about the mimetic desire that is produced in society and its derivation towards the mechanism of scapegoat.
Jaime Aguiló Pastrana
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Review of A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures
International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2021 Gabrielle Owen’s book, A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures, productively deconstructs adolescence to reveal its role both as a disciplinary mechanism of the self and as a scapegoat for a variety of social ills.
Sarah Pyke
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Religions, 2021 This article is a comparison of two works of fiction, a film and a novel, that both address the question of how people deal with intense memories of tragic events from their past. Both works are characterized by crucial references to religious phenomena.
Peter G. A. Versteeg, Edwin Koster
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The wounds of war and the scars of culture: Simone Weil and René Girard on the symmetry of violence [PDF]
Studia z Teorii Wychowania, 2023 The philosophical discourses of violence developed in the 20th century can be grasped in two fundamental paradigms: the paradigm of force (Simone Weil) and the paradigm of domination (Horkheimer and Adorno).
Paulina Sosnowska
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The Death of Socrates: Key Philosophical Interpretations [PDF]
Антиномии, 2021 The subject of the article is the reconstruction of the death event of Socrates, as well as the hermeneutics of his last words spoken shortly before his death.
Andrey S. Emelyanov
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Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit: How Costly Voting Can Foster Cooperation [PDF]
, 2007 We propose a new mechanism to achieve coordination through voting, for which we discuss a number of real-life applications. Among them, the mechanism provides for a new theory for downsizing in organizations.
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