1. Eric Lawrence Gans was born on August 21,1941 and is an American philosophical anthropologist and literary theorist.
11 Facts About Eric Gans
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Eric Gans publishes the Chronicles of Love and Resentment, a weblog dedicated to his reflections on a range of topics including popular culture, film, contemporary politics, philosophy and religion.
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Eric Gans has taught and published on 19th century literature, literary theory and film in the UCLA Department of French and Francophone studies.
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Eric Lawrence Gans was born on 21 August 1941 in Parkchester, the Bronx to a middle-class Jewish family.
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In 1957 Eric Gans graduated from the Bronx High School of Science.
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In 1995 Eric Gans co-founded Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, a scholarly journal devoted to GA.
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Eric Gans was one of Girard's first doctoral students, receiving his PhD in 1966.
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Eric Gans agrees with Girard that human language originates in the context of a mimetic crisis, but he does not find the scapegoat mechanism, by itself, as an adequate explanation for the origin of language.
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For Eric Gans, language is essentially "scenic" in character, that is, structurally defined by a sacred center and human periphery.
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The main source of criticism directed against Eric Gans's work comes from Girard himself, who claims that generative anthropology is just another version of social contract theories of origins.
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Eric Gans has responded to Girard's criticisms and defended his theory in his books and articles.