Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and DeconstructionUniversity of Illinois Press, 1992 - 238 páginas McKenna explicates key elements of the anthropology of Rene Girard and the literary theory of Jacques Derrida in terms of each other--to create an interpretive strategy that he hopes will "salvage deconstruction from the flashy sterility it favors." |
Contenido
Introduction Philosophy in Spite of Itself | 1 |
Philosophy and Sacrifice in Plato and Descartes | 27 |
Platos Letters | 40 |
The Cogito and the Demoniac | 45 |
Philosophy or Anthropology? | 57 |
Violence and the Origin of Language | 66 |
Tracing the Victim | 69 |
Tracing Institutions | 83 |
Apres Coup | 126 |
Truth Stories | 133 |
State Secrets | 143 |
Covert Action | 147 |
State Agents | 160 |
Conclusion Representation and Decidability | 173 |
Biblical Theory Testing The Victimary Hypothesis | 201 |
Solomonic Structuralism | 206 |
Indifference | 94 |
The Subject of Violence | 106 |
Postmodernism The Victim Age | 116 |
The Future Perfect | 119 |
The Law before the Good Samaritan | 211 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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