Evolution of desire. The life of Rene Girard
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“Any desire is a desire to be,” said the famous Franco -American philosopher Rene Girard. It is our desires that determine who we are, however, they do not belong to us: being mymetical (imitative and mirror), they turn us into an infinite series of other people"s reflections. Desire is an evolution in life long: we begin to imitate more children, we will compete at school and at work, we want more and more, we suffer, without receiving the desired, and repent of the deathbed. The Book of Cynthia Heven is the first in its kind biography of Girar, based on conversations with himself, his relatives, friends and colleagues from France and the USA. The life of the thinker appears in it an illustration of his theory, which is revealed not as an abstract speculative concept, but as a philosophy for life, which he was the first to practice.
Years of study in his native Avignon and the dank occupied Paris, the fateful move to the USA, religious appeal in the late 1950s, the discovery of the violent sources of culture, doubt, recognition and its temptation - the reader will learn how his spiritual and creative evolution was unfolded from The first work of the "lie of romanticism is the truth of Roman", through the fundamental "violence and the sacred" to the gloomy apocalyptic prophecies of his final book "Complete the Clausewitz"
Years of study in his native Avignon and the dank occupied Paris, the fateful move to the USA, religious appeal in the late 1950s, the discovery of the violent sources of culture, doubt, recognition and its temptation - the reader will learn how his spiritual and creative evolution was unfolded from The first work of the "lie of romanticism is the truth of Roman", through the fundamental "violence and the sacred" to the gloomy apocalyptic prophecies of his final book "Complete the Clausewitz"
Author:
Author:Haven Cyvenhi L.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Phylosophy
- Category:Reference books
Series:
Series: Intellectual History
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-448-1568-7
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