... compared the lower bole taper—quantified as Girard form class (GFC)—and volume growth between the two thinning regimes and a nonthinned control. Over the 17-year study period, GFC increased among all treatments from an overall average of 0.77 Ϯ 0.01 (ϮSE) to 0.82 Ϯ 0.00. Trees under the B-line...

... of testisacs and a well-developed seminal receptacle connected to the posterior portion of the bursa by paired tissue strands. The leech lacks eyes and ocelli. Hirudinea Piscicolidae Calliobdella knightjonesi sp. nov. Parophrys vetulus Girard REFERENCES APPY , R. G...

..., and implied presence of themes related to religion and violence. The theories of Rene Girard and Karl Marx are helpful to them in this regard, and the essay concludes with a discussion of the violence of poverty in the U.S. as a potential source for one important set of student insights. Cold War Muslims...

...: the removal of diplomatic immunity from MAAG advisors and increased pressure to grant jurisdiction. The situation in Taiwan particularly highlighted the case of William Girard, a GI who was involved in the death of a Japanese civilian two months prior to the Reynolds incident. Unlike in Taiwan, Girard's case...

...This chapter concentrates on the mimetic theory of Rene Girard in evaluating foundational myths of violence. It shows Girard's notion of the scapegoating mechanism, whereby a substitute victim absorbs the mimetic animosities of the entire group and thereby promotes peace, as applicable...

...Paris was one of the first cities to establish a municipal laboratory to test for food adulteration. Overseen by chemical dye chemist Charles Girard, the laboratory investigated chemicals being used in wine production. Girard believed that chemists should be key players in determining the use...

... harmful to our flourishing. Debtors remember the dream they had (see Chapter 3) of a good life, and it is this belief that they can recapture this vision of a good life which encourages them not to give up. Girard’s concepts of mimesis, scapegoating, and sacrifice are used to explain how debtors engage...

...2015 ‘Myth and politics’ examines the treatment of myth in the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, Georges Sorel, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Dumézil, and René Girard. For Malinowski, myth deals with social phenomena. In the case of physical phenomena, the beneficiary of myth is the individual. In the case...

... such as Rene Girard, Wendy Doniger and James Dicenso. The Return, In a Far Country ( 1993 ) and Maniam's latest novel, Between Lives ( 2003 ), constitute a trilogy that reflects the exilic experience of Malaysian Tamil-Indians who, despite forming an integral component...

...Cavarero charts modernity’s development of the aggressive subject (always male), from Thomas Hobbes through Walter Burkert, Konrad Lorenz, and René Girard. Hobbes cast war as a natural state. Burkert hypothesized that human intraspecies aggression and bloodlust arose from his early history...

...Relationality and culture are themselves highly ambiguous phenomena as theological ethicist Wilhelm Guggenberger reminds us in this chapter. Drawing on René Girard’s attempt to reveal the transcultural foundation of human community and its inherent violence, Guggenberger develops a fundamental...

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... poesies de P. de Ronsard (1576); musicians include singer-lutenists Girard de Beaulieu and Joachim Thibault de Courville. Les Amours de P de Ronsard book 1 Bertrand author s Bertrand Anthoine de performance print and printing Ronsard Pierre de bibliographies Doni Anton Francesco Du...

...Bataille, Agamben and Girard are thinkers of the moment in as much as each aims to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of violence, sovereignty and the sacred. The book shows that a study of the latter categories inevitably reveals a connection between violence ant the image...

... the scholarly tendency to treat animal sacrifice as a marker of primitive culture, starting with E. B. Tylor and William Robertson Smith and extending down to Walter Burkert and René Girard. The second section examines animal offerings within the Christian tradition, from late antiquity down to the present day...

...This chapter brings together three thinkers of violence – Réne Girard (the notion of ‘mimesis’), Sigmund Freud (his notion of ‘death instinct’), and Emmanuel Lévinas (his ‘phenomenological’- ethical notion of the face of the other) – to argue that the radical movement beyond violence is inseparable...

...This chapter looks at the beginnings of what are still pre-theoretical deliberations on synonymy as published by Gabriel Girard (1718). A brief sketch is given of the extraordinary success those deliberations enjoyed on the Continent and also in England. After Samuel Johnson, there is a continuous...

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...By exploring intersections between the three thinkers named, the essay asks whether the image of sacrifice is of use today in facilitating a renewal of life in individual and society. Girard’s deconstruction of the image as a social mechanism is shown—in interaction with Balthasar—to assume...

... Schmitt. A second part summarizes René Girard’s theory of sacrifice that explains why sacrificial thinking stems from the archaic scapegoat mechanism and how the Bible has overcome it by revealing its violent origin. This part also underlines Girard’s later work that emphasizes that the exodus from...