Anorexia and Mimetic Desire – René Girard
René Girard shows that all desires are contagious—and the desire to be thin is no exception. In this compelling new book, Girard ties the anorexia epidemic to what he calls mimetic desire: a desire imitated from a model. Girard has long argued that, far from being spontaneous, our most intimate desires are copied from what […]
Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare – by René Girard
In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Girard’s novel reinterpretation of “mimesis.” For Girard, people desire objects, not for […]
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is René Girard‘s magnum opus. In dialogue with two psychiatrists, Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort, Girard articulates the full depth of mimetic theory unlike he does in any of his other works. Covering everything from the hominization of man to the implications of the Gospel revelation on the […]