The Time Has Grown Short: René Girard, or the Last Law (Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory) - Softcover

Chantre, Benot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611864267 ISBN 13: 9781611864267

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The protagonist of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time observes with wonder the comings and goings of the crows that roost in the belfry of the village church in Combray, his childhood home. For René Girard, one of Proust’s great interpreters, their mysterious flight, first departing from and then returning to the vertical axis of the steeple, suggests the movement of modern history—the crisis of aristocratic models, the growing servitude of individuals possessed by mimetic desire, and the final irruption of authentic transcendence. In this rich exploration of Girard’s insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoît Chantre brings Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans into dialogue with both Proust and Girard in order to push to its logical endpoint the idea of a back-and-forth movement from chaos to order. History, Chantre argues, has been driven mad by the revelation of its sacrificial engine. The only way out lies in a transformation internal to the crisis itself—only that faith which is capable of hearing the One who speaks in the Law makes it possible to avoid the perpetual ups and downs of rivalry. Acting and revealing Himself at the heart of history, an intimate model “hidden since the foundation of the world” deals a fatal blow to the circle of sin. Authentic transcendence coincides with the eschaton, the moment when—according to Saint Paul—historical time implodes into eternity.

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BENOÎT CHANTRE is a French essayist and literary critic. He has authored books on the German poet Hölderlin (Le clocher de Tübingen, 2019) and René Girard (Les derniers jours de René Girard, 2016), with whom he collaborated on Battling to the End (2009).

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1611864267
• ISBN 13: 9781611864267
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 103
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