The Genesis of Desire (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
By: Jean-Michel Oughourlian
4.20
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
We seem to be abandoning the codes that told previous generations who they should love. But now tha…
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1. Violence and the Sacred
By: René Girard , Patrick Gregory
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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"Violence is the divine force that everyone tries to use for his own purposes and that ends by using everyone for its own—the Dionysus of The Bacchae"-René Girard, Violence and the Sacred
2. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
By: Gil Bailie
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This is a Girardian-influenced, engagingly written classic on the nature of violence and the hope f… read more
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3. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
By: René Girard , Stephen Bann , Michael Metteer
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devast… read more
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4. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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5. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
By: René Girard , James G. Williams
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they al… read more
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6. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
By: David Bentley Hart
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion… read more
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7. Sacrifice
By: René Girard
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In Sacrifice, Rene Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with mi… read more
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8. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
9. Heretics
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays… read more
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10. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
By: C.S. Lewis
2.80
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11. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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12. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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13. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
By: Abigail Rine Favale
4.59
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more
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14. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By: Luke Burgis
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more
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15. Rethinking Sex: A Provocation
By: Christine Emba
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part searing examination, part call to arms—a bold case against modern sexual ethics, from young Wa… read more
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16. The Genesis of Desire (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
By: Jean-Michel Oughourlian
4.20
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
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