CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE

VOLUME 4 (SPRING 1997)

In Memoriam
ROEL KAPTEIN
1919-1996

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CONTENTS:

Editor's Note v

Ouzgane, Lahoucine: Masculinity as Virility in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Work 1

Hurlbut, William B., M.D: Mimesis and Empathy in Human Biology 14

Alison, James: The Man Blind from Birth and the Subversion of Sin: Some Questions about Fundamental Morals 26

Bartlett, Andrew: Señor Hirsch as Sacrificial Victim and the Modernism of Conrad's »Nostromo« 47

Nash, James: The »Justifiable Homocide« of Abortion Providers: Moral reason, Mimetic Theory, and the Gospel 67

Cochetti, Stefano: The Lethal Narcissus: Heidegger on Sacrifice / Sacrifice on Heidegger 87

Bland, Byron: Marching and Rising: The Rituals of Small Differences and Great Violence 101

Bailie, Gil: The Vine and Branches Discourse: The Gospel's Psychological Apocalypse 120

McCracken, David: Scandal and Imitation in Matthew, Kierkegaard, and Girard 146

Fornari, Giuseppe: Labyrinthine Strategies of Sacrifice: The »Cretans« by Euripides 163

Notes on Contributors 189