University of Tulsa Philosophy Professor Stephen Gardner writes about René Girard’s book Battling to the End.
Battling to the End is about Girard’s view on war and how he believes Mimetic Theory plays an explanatory role in human violence. Girard introduces readers to von Clausewitz, an eighteenth-century Prussian military officer and strategist, and reflects on the way he intuited some of the key principles of mimetic theory over a hundred years before Girard.
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