CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE

VOLUME 7 (SPRING 2000)

Main topic:
Papers of the COV&R Conference 1999
in Atlanta:

"Mimesis: From Primates to Humans"

Complete Volume as PDF-document
(Free download, 10,9 MB)

CONTENTS:

Gans, Eric: The Origin of the Language: Violence Deferred or Violence Denied 1

Waterman Ward, Bernadette: Abortion as a Sacrament: Mimetic Desire and Sacrifice in Sexual Politics 18

Wydra, Harald: Human Nature and Politics: A Mimetic Reading of Crisis and Conflict in the Work of Machiavelli 36

Erickson Johnsen, Rosemary: Seneca Falls Inheritance: Disentangling Women, Legislation and Violence in Monfredo's Fiction 58

Osborne, Sara: The Role of an Ultimate Authority in Restorative Justice: A Girardian Analysis 79

Alison, James: Spluttering Up to the Beach to Ninevah 108

Ranieri, John J.: What Voegelin Missed in the Gospel 125

Notes on Contributors 160