CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE

VOLUME 11 (SPRING 2004)

Main topic:
Papers of the COV&R Conferences:

"Judaism, Christianity, and the Ancient World: Mimesis, Sacrifice, and Scripture" (Purdue, 2002)

"Passions in Economy, Politics, and Media. In Discussion with Christian Theology" (Innsbruck 2003)

Complete Volume as PDF-document
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CONTENTS:

Alberg, Jeremiah L.: The Scandal of Origins in Rousseau 1

Astell, Anne W.: Maternal Compassion in the Thought of René Girard, Emil Fackenheim, and Emmanuel Levinas 15

Pattillo, Matthew: Violence, Anarchy, and Scripture: Jacques Ellul and René Girard 25

Ranieri, John: The Bible and Modernity: Reflections on Leo Strauss 55

Markússon, Gudmundur Ingi: Violent Memes and Suspicious Minds: Girard’s Scapegoat in the Light of Evolution and Memetics 88

Taylor, Matthew: What Persuasion Really Means in Persuasion: A Mimetic Reading of Jane Austen 105

Ludwigs, Marina: Narrative and Explanation: Explaining Anna Karenina in the Light of Its Epigraph 124

Wandinger, Nikolaus: “Concupiscience” and “Mimetic Desire”: A Dialogue Between K. Rahner and R. Girard 146

Drasko, Dizdar: “With a Rod in the Spirit of Love and Gentleness?” Paul and the Rhetoric of Expulsion 161

Anspach, Mark R.: Desired Possessions: Karl Polanyi, René Girard, and the Critique of the Market Economy 181

Notes on Contributors 189