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This book offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the “midlife crisis” Machado…
by Simon Simonse, Foreword by Mark Anspach The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse’s study of the Rainmakers…
For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves…
Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an account of Paolo Diego Bubbio’s twenty-year intellectual journey through the twists and turns…
by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford From his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, René Girard’s mimetic…
In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was a man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came…
Giuseppe Fornari’s groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche’s neglected importance as a religious thinker and his “untimeliness” place him at…
Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female…
We seem to be abandoning the codes that told previous generations who they should love. But now that many of…
by Sandor Goodhart, Jørgen Jørgensen, Tom Ryba, James Williams In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, René Girard has hit…
by David Dawson Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term “scapegoat” has…
René Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era—a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer…
by Mc Cormack, W. J. Enigmas of Sacrifice: A Critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin Insurrection of 1916 is…
A monster stalks the earth—a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the…
Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition…