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very good dust-jacket, very good orange cloth. GIRARD, RENÉ. "To double business bound". Essays on literature, mimesis, and anthropology. London: The Athlone Press, 1978, xvi, 229pp., . First published by Johns Hopkins in 1978. - An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis . was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society.". - CONTENTS: The mimetic desire of Paolo and Francesca -- Camus's stranger retried -- The underground critic -- Strategies of madness - Nietzsche, Wagner, and Dostoevski -- Delirium as system -- Perilous balance: a comic hypothesis -- The plague in literature and myth -- Differentiation and reciprocity in Lévi-Strauss and contemporary theory -- Violence and representation in the mythical text -- An interview with René Girard. 9780485113433 ISBN 0485113430. Seller Inventory # 95382
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