Dionysus versus the Crucified

Girard, René

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“…. 'the God on the cross' is a curse on life, a hint to deliver oneself from it Dionysos cut to pieces is a promise to life: it will eternally be reborn and come home out of destruction 5 Girard discusses this fragment in an article from 1984, 6 in which he uses it to clarify the uniqueness of Christianity. This is less strange than it may seem at first sight.…”

Section: René Girard's Account Of the Christ Eventmentioning

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Gianni Vattimo and René Girard on the Uniqueness of Christianity

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2009

The Heythrop Journal

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The possibility of a naturalistic explanation of religious phenomena (including Christianity) which is offered by natural science gives the question of the uniqueness of Christianity a new urgency, for it raises the question of whether an irreducible otherness in Christianity vis‐à‐vis a generally‐human, natural religiosity (which may be explained naturalistically) can be demonstrated. In what follows, we shall discuss the answer of two contemporary thinkers to this question: that of the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo and that of the French‐American literary critic and fundamental anthropologist René Girard. There is also an interesting link between both thinkers, as we shall see below – Vattimo has stated that it was his reading of Girard which made him return to Christianity after having abandoned it earlier in his life.

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Section: René Girard's Account Of the Christ Eventmentioning

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Gianni Vattimo and René Girard on the Uniqueness of Christianity

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2009

The Heythrop Journal

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“…This chapter has traced some of the ways in which this 'death' is dramatized through the encounters with tragedy, the death of which is also supposedly hailed by modernity. As René Girard states, 'The death of God is also his birth', 44 as this death will always be re-enacted through sacrificial rituals and rites. Within modernist performance these rites may be sacred, but they may also be profane.…”

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‘What Festivals of Atonement, What Sacred Games We have to Invent’ (Friedrich Nietzsche): Modernist Tragedy after the Death of God

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2019

The Transformations of Tragedy

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“…8. Guido Vanheeswijck (2018) points out that, while Nietzsche saw ressentiment as producing Christian ethics, an alternative interpretation can be found in the work of Rene´Girard (1984, 1987, who sees the relationship reversed. 9.…”

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Menno ter Braak on Democracy, Populism and Fascism:Ressentimentand its Vicissitudes

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2018

Theory, Culture & Society

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The concept of ressentiment is increasingly being drawn upon to analyse current political developments, but in doing so it is important to have a clear understanding of its original meaning in the work of Nietzsche and Scheler, who applied it to the inner logic of democracy, rather than political movements opposed to liberal democracy. This article introduces an important essay written in 1937, ‘National Socialism as a doctrine of rancour’, by the Dutch modernist writer, Menno ter Braak. Despite having been highly influential in Dutch literature and scholarship, he is virtually unknown in the Anglophone world, since none of his work has been translated. This article is an important contribution both as a rare examination of how ressentiment can be used to analyse 1930s National Socialism, and as an analysis of the role of ressentiment as a moral sentiment in democratic politics, especially its populist variants.

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Dionysus versus the Crucified

Cited by 32 publications

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Gianni Vattimo and René Girard on the Uniqueness of Christianity

Gianni Vattimo and René Girard on the Uniqueness of Christianity

‘What Festivals of Atonement, What Sacred Games We have to Invent’ (Friedrich Nietzsche): Modernist Tragedy after the Death of God

Menno ter Braak on Democracy, Populism and Fascism:Ressentimentand its Vicissitudes

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