The peer-reviewed journal of Generative Anthropology, founded by Eric Gans at UCLA. Published 1995–2024 (Vols 1–30), featuring essays by Van Oort, Bartlett, Dennis, Ludwigs, McKenna, Goldman, Eshelman, Gans, Girard, and others.
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This Fall’s issue is the first collection of essays based on papers presented at GASC 2019, “Returning to the Linguistic Turn,” to be published in Anthropoetics . Ben Barber’s “Immanence,...
Ben Barber is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature Studies at United International College: Hong Kong Baptist University – Beijing Normal University. He teaches courses on...
United International College Zhuhai, China bbarb056@uottawa.ca René Girard’s mimetic theory and Generative Anthropology (subsequently GA) have produced conceptions of cultural and language origin...
Loyola University Chicago [1] amckenn@luc.edu Richard van Oort’s Shakespeare’s Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment affords a productive encounter between René Girard’s mimetic theory and...
Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada rvanoort@uvic.ca Resentment, whose patron saint must be Iago, has many allies. Envy, jealousy, contempt,...
Kinjo Gakuin University taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp Beauty is sometimes thought to be “objective,” where everyone agrees on who or what is beautiful. Beauty is other times characterized as “subjective,” in...
177 pages Ebook $9.95 Print: $15.95 The way people speak about their relation and attitude toward the liberal democratic social orders most of us live under tends to be, upon reflection, odd. It...