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Le mythe cosmogonique de Pangu
Carnets, 2018 Noting the key role that desire holds in the human condition, Girard believes that, in human relationships, there is an imitative character of desire. It is therefore possible to draw a mimetic triangle, with subject, object, model on its vertices.
João Marcelo Mesquita Martins
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Motyw winy Heleny w tradycji epickiej i w dyskursie
Collectanea Philologica, 2021 The paper takes up the issue of Helen’s guilt for the outbreak of the Trojan war present in the Iliad and in the oral epic tradition. It puts forward a thesis that in order to blame others or to free themselves from blame epic heroes employ the typical ...
Karol Zieliński
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Le paradigme du bouc émissaire chez Maupassant : une démythification narrative
Carnets, 2019 The way we look at the other determines our conception of the scapegoat. Whether it becomes the whipping boy or the pet peeve, it’s nothing but a solution to societal difficulties by which injustice and violence are the last springs.
Diane Aymard Obono Oyono
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Syndebukkemekanismen i nilotisk kongedømme
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1992 Den bristede og den opskærne mave. In a structural analysis of the ritual in the treatment of the stomach of the dead king (or queen) in some Upper-Nilotic societies, the role of the kind a a "rain maker" (or the opposite) is demonstrated. Furthermore,
Simon Simonse
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Memory and Testimony in Extraordinary Times
Ilha do Desterro, 2021 This paper analyzes two parallel and opposed testimonies of mass annihilation in World War II: Primo Levi’s report of his gruesome experiences in Auschwitz, in The Drowned and the Saved; the testimony of the fire-bombing of Dresden, that killed 130,000 ...
Mail Marques de Azevedo
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The Scapegoat Mechanism in Human Evolution: An Analysis of René Girard’s Hypothesis on the Process of Hominization [PDF]
Biological Theory, 2021 AbstractAccording to anthropological philosopher René Girard (1923–2015), an important human adaptation is our propensity to victimize or scapegoat. He argued that other traits upon which human sociality depends would have destabilized primate dominance-based social hierarchies, making conspecific conflict a limiting factor in hominin evolution.
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TITO DORČIĆ AS A FORERUNNER OF THE IRONIC MODE
Senjski Zbornik, 2020 According to Northrop Frye, 20th-century literature is marked by characters whose intelligence and capabilities are lesser than those of the average human.
Dean Slavić
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Goats, Heifers, Wolves and Other Animals in Alice Munro’s Runaway
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2017 Cet essai se concentre sur l’histoire éponyme “Runaway” et fait brièvement référence à deux autres nouvelles qui figurent également dans le volume : “Chance” et “Soon,” pour mettre en lumière la présence animale en tant que motif récurrent qui établit ...
Gianfranca Balestra
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Blessed priest Jerzy Popiełuszko as a personal model in upbringing towards the virtue of courage
Fides et Ratio, 2023 The work focuses on personal models in upbringing towards the virtue of courage. The purpose of the research is answering to the following question: How can we use the blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko’s example in upbringing towards the virtue of courage?
Weronika Juroszek
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Antropología de la violencia: René Girard / Anthropology of violence: René Girard
Bajo Palabra, 2017 La obra de René Girard ofrece una teoría antropológica cuyo tema central es la violencia como origen de la sociedad humana. Tres son sus elementos principales: una teoría mimética del deseo; el mecanismo del chivo expiatorio; la revelación cristiana.
Juan Alberto Sucasas Peón
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