Concluding Thoughts
In this volume, we have attempted to explore the role of sacrifice in arenas from business and the military to gender relations and the changes brought about by artificial intelligence. We have also sought to address questions that occupied the great theorist of sacrifice, Rene Girard: How did the p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Mimesis and sacrifice
Year: 2019, Pages: 228-234 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Summary: | In this volume, we have attempted to explore the role of sacrifice in arenas from business and the military to gender relations and the changes brought about by artificial intelligence. We have also sought to address questions that occupied the great theorist of sacrifice, Rene Girard: How did the practice of sacrifice begin? How and why does it motivate us and to do what? Under what conditions is sacrifice productive and when, abusive? In exploring these questions, contributors to this volume agree with Girard on humanity’s social and mimetic nature—that we learn from our surroundings what things are to consider valuable. There is further probing, however, of the idea that shared values—because of their very shared-ness, because they are learned through acculturation and mimesis within societies—inevitably bring on society-rending competition and aggression. In short, does mimesis unavoidably lead to competition or are they, under certain conditions of human development, uncoupled? Thus, additional questions emerging in this volume are: ... |
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| ISBN: | 9781350057449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mimesis and sacrifice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350057432.0022 |