L' antica via degli empi

Both superb and awful. Girard does that.

Successfully brings the book of Job into the Rene Girard Extended Universe. A cracking short study that my creaky GCSE French just about brought me through unscathed.

People through out history are fascinated about "The Book of Job". I've read stories about people of faith facing oppression looking up to Job. Still, as an average reader myself, I've already read three different books and one articles interpreting "Job" more or less by chance. The authors includin Leggi tutto

No livro “A rota antiga dos homens perversos”, o antropólogo francês René Girard observa que o caso de Jó ilustra um importante mecanismo totalitário. Jó se tornou um "bode expiatório" ao ser condenado por seus “amigos” e comunidade após sua falência. Ele, que era idolatrado, passou a ser odiado. Po Leggi tutto

Girard lleva al Libro de Job las tesis del mimetismo y el chivo expiatorio expuestas en La Violencia y Lo Sagrado. Para Girard, Job difiere fundamentalmente en que, de manera excepcional, escuchamos la voz de una víctima que se niega a serlo, que no quiere formar parte del mecanismo de creación de l Leggi tutto

Wymęczyłem, dosłownie. Dobrze, że to takie krótkie, a mam wrażenie, że mogłoby być jeszcze krótsze. Z książki zapamiętam tyle, że społeczeństwo zwykle potrzebuje jakiegoś kozła ofiarnego żeby się skonsolidować. Bóg chrześcijan jest bogiem ofiar. Jeśli nie damy się wciągnąć w pułapkę karania kozłów o Leggi tutto

A powerfully written and fascinating book. Girard considers Job to be a scapegoat in the biblical sense chosen by his people to be responsible to God for all their problems. However, he does not qualify as such for many reasons, not the least of which is that he is finally restored to his former sta Leggi tutto

Ενδιαφέρουσα ανάλυση παραπομπών από το βιβλίο του Ιώβ με άστοχους όμως παραλληλισμούς. Κάπου το ξεχειλώνει ο συγγραφέας για να φτάσει στο συμπέρασμα που επιθυμεί.

In what's probably one of the bigger stretches of his mimetic theory, Girard rejects the conventional interpretation of the Book of Job as a work dealing primarily with theodicy, at least as this concept is usually understood, and argues that the original Job was a victim of persecution on the hands Leggi tutto