William T. Cavanaugh and René Girard
William T. Cavanaugh and René Girard
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威廉·T·卡瓦诺和雷内·吉拉德
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2014
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Michael Kirwan
本文考察了威廉·T.卡瓦诺的《宗教暴力的神话》是根据法裔美国文化理论家勒内·吉拉德的模仿理论而写的。虽然这两个项目有很大的不同，但我认为它们是相互兼容的。每个作者是“道歉”的基督教启示，虽然存在的神学“神话。. .”是无声的或含蓄的，就像沃尔特·本雅明的木偶和侏儒的寓言一样。我认为卡瓦诺和吉拉德之间的具体趋同的四个领域，从一个共同的奥古斯丁，“两个城市”的国家的怀疑，以及他们的抵抗犹太教和基督教传统的世俗化边缘化。殉难作为一种“戏剧性”表演的概念是另一个共同的层面。最后，我认为，他们的方法之间的明显分歧，人类学论文（吉拉德的）和历史的（卡瓦诺的）是缩小，当我们考虑到后来的工作吉拉德和它的考试的19世纪的战争升级的动态在他的最后一本书战斗到底。
Abstract This article examines the argument of William T. Cavanaugh’s The Myth of Religious Violence in the light of the mimetic theory of the French-American cultural theorist Rene Girard. Though the two projects are significantly different I argue for their mutual compatibility. Each author is “apologetic” for the Christian revelation, though the presence of theology in “The Myth . . .” is muted or implicit, as in Walter Benjamin’s parable of the puppet and the dwarf. I argue for four areas of specific convergence between Cavanaugh and Girard, arising from a shared Augustinian, “two Cities” suspicion of the state, and their resistance to the secularising marginalisation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The notion of martyrdom as a “dramatic” performance is a further shared dimension. Finally, I argue that the apparent divergence of their approaches, between an anthropological thesis (Girard’s) and a historical one (Cavanaugh’s) is narrowed when we consider the later work of Girard and its examination of nineteenth century dynamics of escalation in warfare in his last book Battling to the End.