Anthropoetics Journal

Richard van Oort ‘s and Matthew Schneider ‘s articles are revised versions of their presentations at the December 1994 San Diego MLA session on Anthropoetics . Since Tom Bertonneau ‘s paper on...

French Department U. C. L. A. Los Angeles CA 90095-1550 gans@humnet.ucla.edu La religion est une réaction défensive de la nature contre la représentation, par l’intelligence, de l’inévitabilité de la...

Department of English Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant MI 48859 3e4kkhr@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Imitative desire is always desire to be Another. There is only one metaphysical desire but the...

Department of English Chapman University Orange CA 92666 schneide@nexus.chapman.edu Almost from its very beginnings mimetology has looked to ancient Greece for its proof texts. For both René Girard’s...

Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism University of Western Ontario London ONT Canada N6A 5B7 rvanoort@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca 1. Introduction On the surface it may seem odd to bring together two...

Herbert Plutschow ‘s scholarly synthesis on Chinese sacrificial practices is the first serious attempt to use GA as a point of departure for examining a major non-Western civilization; it was written...

French Department, UCLA Los Angeles CA 90095-1550 gans@humnet.ucla.edu Generative anthropology, like all projects of fundamental reflection on the human, whether they be called myth, theology, or...

Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism University of Western Ontario London, ON Canada rvanoort@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca Angela Esterhammer. Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of...

East Asian Languages & Cultures University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095-1540 plutscho@humnet.ucla.edu René Girard and Eric Gans developed their so-called “originary” or...