CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE
VOLUME 3 (SPRING 1996)
Main topic:
Papers of the COV&R Conference 1995
in Chicago/USA:
Violence, Mimesis, and the Subject of Responsibility
CONTENTS:
Girard, René: Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire 1
Rike, Jennifer L: The Cycle of Violence and Feminist Constructions of Selfhood 21
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel: Desire is Mimetic: A Clinical Approach43
Gans, Eric: The Unique Source of Religion and Morality 51
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G: The King and the Crowd: Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty in the French Revolution 67
Siebers, Tobin: Politics and Peace 85
Bellinger, Charles K: »The Crowd Is Untruth«: A Comparison of Kierkegaard and Girard 103
Lefebure, Leo D: Mimesis, Violence, and Socially Engaged Buddhism: Overture to a Dialogue 121
Johnsen, William A: Ibsen's Drama of Self-Sacrifice 141
Shore, Marci: The Sacred and the Myth: Havel's Greengrocer and the Transformation of Ideology in Communist Czechoslovakia163
Duff, Paul and Hallman, Joseph: Murder in the Garden? The Envy of the Gods in Genesis 2 and 3 183
Nuechterlein, Paul: Holy Communion: Altar Sacrament for Making a Sacrificial Sin Offering, or Table Sacrament for Nourishing a Life of Sacrifice? 201
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Dietmar Regensburger