Robert Doran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Doran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Doran |
| SIGNATURE | DORAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8265-2912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
L’art du trémolo: Contextes, Techniques Et Effets Dans Le Développement De La Musique Pour Le Piano, 1780-1880
The ethics of narrative: A readers’ dialogue
This article is a collaborative commentary on the first volume of a two-part anthology of works by Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative, edited by Robert Doran. Informed by the collection and inspired by the co-authors, in this paper we discuss White's writing. Herman Paul compares White's constructivism with that of Berger and Luckmann, and discusses the extent to which the tools of historical narrative criticism developed by White are expediti…
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007
This book brings together nearly all of the author's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known side: that of the public intellectual. From modern patriotism and European identity to Hannah Arendt's writings on totalitarianism, from the idea of the historical museum and the theme of melancholy in art history to trenchant readings of Leo Tolstoy and Primo Levi, the first volume of the book shows the author a…
Maccabees 1–7. A Handbook on the Greek Text, written by Seth M. Ehorn 2 Maccabees 8–15. A Handbook on the Greek Text, written by Seth M. Ehorn
“Salting with Fire” (Mark 9: (49)
At Mark 9:49, the verb ἁλίζω is translated as “to salt, season”: “For everyone will be salted with fire.” No satisfactory explanation has been given of what “salting with fire” means. Here, the author suggests that the other meaning of the same verb be taken: “to collect, gather”: “For everyone will be gathered by fire.” Before the final division into those who go to Gehenna or to heaven, the work of everyone will be examined by fire, similar to …
Archival Material: Early Papers on History, Volume 25
Early Works on Theological Method 2: Volume 23
Bernard Lonergan: The Redemption, Volume 9
The theology of redemption or soteriology, as the relevant themes are treated in biblical literature, Christian history, and contemporary theology, including Lonergan's famous treatment of 'the law of the cross,' with a significant treatment of the problem of good and evil.
The History and Fulfilment of Western Rationality: Martin Jay’s The Eclipse of Reason
This review-essay examines Martin Jay’s The Eclipse of Reason: On Late Critical Theory with a view toward understanding the stakes of its interpretative approach to intellectual history. I show how Jay's book aims to provide much more than a mere history of reason (although it does this admirably), for it seeks to legitimate and resuscitate an idea of reason in the face of more than one hundred years of anti-rationalist thought. I contend that Ja…
Metaphysical revolt in the face of faith, examined through the play Insular: A contemporary Australian context
Metaphysical revolt arises from conscious awareness of the divorce between the experience of life and the emptiness of reason for it. To explore this, the play Insular is situated within the philosophical framework of Albert Camus’ approach of atheistic absurdism. The first part of this volume is an exegesis of qualitative practice-led research that applies a hybrid methodology of performative, bricolage and hermeneutic praxes. It includes a lite…
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Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Shorter Papers
What Is Systematic Theology?
Theology and the Dialectics of History
William Horbury . Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 501 pp
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The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical…
Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
Rupture and Literary Creation in Jean-Paul Sartre [1968]
The Future of the Novel [1957]
Research Article| May 01 2012 The Future of the Novel [1957] René Girard; René Girard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Doran Robert Doran Translator Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (2012) 19: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/41925330 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation René Girard…
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera
Book Review| January 01 2010 Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 326 pp. Cloth $85.00. Hughes, Dere Robert Doran Robert Doran University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (2): 236–239. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.2.0236 Views I…
Ambiguity in Jean Renoir's La Règle Du Jeu
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's "mimetic theory"—a groundbreaking account of human inter…
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11: An Interview with René Girard
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11:An Interview with René Girard1 Robert Doran (bio) and René Girard (bio) Robert Doran: Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 you participated in an interview with the French news daily Le Monde, in which you stated that "what is occurring today is a mimetic rivalry on a planetary scale."2 This observation now appears truer than ever. All evidence points to a continuation and intensification of mimetic conf…
Global Terror, Global Vengeance
Global Terror, Global Vengeance? Marcel Hénaff (bio) Translated by Roxanne Lapidus and Robert Doran (bio) It seems generally accepted that the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington mark the beginning of an era of a new kind of violence. We are supposedly dealing with a form of terrorism so exceptional that it makes traditional concepts of war obsolete. Classical warfare between nations or alliances always involved States, and r…
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's "mimetic theory"—a groundbreaking account of human inter…
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11: An Interview with René Girard
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11:An Interview with René Girard1 Robert Doran (bio) and René Girard (bio) Robert Doran: Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 you participated in an interview with the French news daily Le Monde, in which you stated that "what is occurring today is a mimetic rivalry on a planetary scale."2 This observation now appears truer than ever. All evidence points to a continuation and intensification of mimetic conf…
Subject, Psyche, and Theology's Foundations
Aesthetics and the Opposites
Jungian Psychology and Lonergan's Foundations: A Methodological Proposal
A theology is subject to the theologian who constructs it, and the theologian is subject to what has been disclosed in his or her individuality. The foundations of a theology lie in the intellectual, moral, religious, and affective development of the theologian. Jung's psychology as a maieutic of the psychic constituents of individuality can complement Lonergan's intentionality analysis in disclosing the concrete subjectivity that structures theo…
Contemporary Theology
Journal Article CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Get access Conversion: Perspectives on Personal and Social Transformation. Edited by Walter E. Conn. New York: Alba House, 1978. xiii+330 pages. $7.95. ISBN 0-8189-0368-6. Robert M. Doran Robert M. Doran Regis CollegeToronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.1…
The Lives of the Desert Fathers: The "Historia monachorum in Aegypto" . Norman Russell
Maccabees 6: 2 And The Samaritan Question
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"Doran's "Temple Propaganda
The End of Ancient Christianity. R. A. Markus
Philosophical and Theological Papers, 1958-1964: Volume 6
A companion to Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964 (Volume 6 in the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan series), this anthology contains Lonergan's lectures on philosophy and theology given during the later period of his life, 1965-1980. These papers document his development in the discipline during the years leading up to the publication of Method in Theology, and beyond to 1980 when he was more engaged in his writings and seminars on…
Response to Helminiak's 'A Scientific Spirituality: The Interface of Psychology and Theology
Helminiak's argument is summarized and substantial agreement is indicated. Two terminological changes are recommended: the substitution of intentiona ity analysis for spirituality and a refinement of the use of the term conscious ness to include specifically nonintentional states as well as intentional operations and to include psychic as well as spiritual dimensions. A more substantive difficulty is expressed with Helminiak's schema of the human…
Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas, Volume 2
Interprets aspects in the writing of Aquinas relevant to trinitarian theory and, as in most of Lonergan's work, one of the principal aims is to assist the reader in the search to understand the workings of the human mind.
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. Ramsay MacMullen
Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence?Lee I. Levine
Shorter Papers: Volume 20
As a sampling of pieces from the late 1920s to the early 1980s, Shorter Papers testifies to the cumulative impact of Lonergan’s work, as well as to the amazing continuity that he maintained throughout his career as an author and intellectual.
Literary History and the Sublime in Erich Auerbach's Mimesis
This paper argues that the idea of the sublime lies at the heart of Auerbach's notion of realism as developed in Mimesis. Through a close examination of Auerbach's approach to literary history, I show that his concept of realistic representation, far from being relativistic and radically contingent as Auerbach himself asserts, is actually structural and implicitly theoretical. Auerbach's well-known notion of the mixture of styles is not a mixture…
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's "mimetic theory"—a groundbreaking account of human inter…
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11: An Interview with René Girard
Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11:An Interview with René Girard1 Robert Doran (bio) and René Girard (bio) Robert Doran: Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 you participated in an interview with the French news daily Le Monde, in which you stated that "what is occurring today is a mimetic rivalry on a planetary scale."2 This observation now appears truer than ever. All evidence points to a continuation and intensification of mimetic conf…
Global Terror, Global Vengeance
Global Terror, Global Vengeance? Marcel Hénaff (bio) Translated by Roxanne Lapidus and Robert Doran (bio) It seems generally accepted that the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington mark the beginning of an era of a new kind of violence. We are supposedly dealing with a form of terrorism so exceptional that it makes traditional concepts of war obsolete. Classical warfare between nations or alliances always involved States, and r…
Introduction: Terrorism and Cultural Theory: The Singularity of 9/11
IntroductionTerrorism and Cultural Theory: The Singularity of 9/11 Robert Doran (bio) The essays in this collection seek to interpret the events of September 11, 2001 from the perspective of cultural theory—that is, from the perspective of the anthropological and social forces that motivate human beings and give meaning to their thoughts, actions, and feelings. Addressing the events that shape our world and our worldviews, particularly those poss…
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera
Book Review| January 01 2010 Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 326 pp. Cloth $85.00. Hughes, Dere Robert Doran Robert Doran University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (2): 236–239. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.2.0236 Views I…
Ambiguity in Jean Renoir's La Règle Du Jeu
The Future of the Novel [1957]
Research Article| May 01 2012 The Future of the Novel [1957] René Girard; René Girard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Doran Robert Doran Translator Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (2012) 19: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/41925330 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation René Girard…
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical…
Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
Rupture and Literary Creation in Jean-Paul Sartre [1968]
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