Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor Emeritus of the University of St Andrews, where for ten years he directed the University”s Institute of Cultural Identity Studies. He worked with Rene Girard as Invited Scholar at Stanford University and as Visiting Research Fellow of the Girardian foundation, Imitatio. He has co-edited two collections of Girardian essays published by Michigan University Press: Can We Survive Our Origins? (2015) and How We Became Human (2015).
11 Ebooks de Paul Gifford
David Archard & David Archard: 2000 Years and Beyond
2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time – specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look back …
PDF
Engleză
DRM
€25.77
David Archard & Paul Gifford: 2000 Years and Beyond
2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time – specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look back …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€25.55
David Archard & Paul Gifford: 2000 Years and Beyond
2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time – specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look back …
PDF
Engleză
DRM
€25.67
Steve Brouwer & Paul Gifford: Exporting the American Gospel
As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product. This fundamentalist Christianity, a fusion of American p …
PDF
Engleză
DRM
€56.60
Steve Brouwer & Paul Gifford: Exporting the American Gospel
As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product. This fundamentalist Christianity, a fusion of American p …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€56.19
Paul Gifford: Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature
European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of ‘Desire’, whereas ‘love’ has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actuall …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€38.55
Paul Gifford: Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature
European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of ‘Desire’, whereas ‘love’ has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actuall …
PDF
Engleză
DRM
€38.51
Pierpaolo Antonello & Paul Gifford: Can We Survive Our Origins?
<DIV>Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the ‘new atheists’)? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€27.12
Pierpaolo Antonello & Paul Gifford: How We Became Human
<DIV>From his groundbreaking <I>Violence and the Sacred </I>and <I>Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World</I>, René Girard’s mimetic theory is pres …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€33.21
Paul Gifford: Towards Reconciliation
Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of ‘sacred violence’? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene Gir …
EPUB
Engleză
DRM
€101.07
Paul Gifford: Towards Reconciliation
Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of ”sacred violence”? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene G …
PDF
DRM
€30.93