Mimesis and Sacrifice by Marcia Pally - 9781350254046

Mimesis and SacrificeApplying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines\nAuthor(s): Marcia Pally\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350254046, 978-1350254046\nSynopsis\nCentral to identity, personal responsibility, economic systems, theology, and the political and military imaginaries, the practice of sacrifice has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Mimesis and Sacrifice brings together scholars from the humanities, military, business, and social sciences to examine the role that sacrifice plays in different present-day settings, from economics to gender relations. \n\nInspired by Rene Girards work, chapters explore (i) the extent to which the social character of human living makes us mimetic, (ii) whether mimesis necessarily leads to competitive aggression, (iii) whether aggression must be defused by aggressive sacrificial ritualsand whether all sacrifice has this aim, and (iv) the role of the secon.