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Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the ‘new atheists’)? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally…
Jeremiah Alberg’s fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every newsreader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from…
According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens—both from each other and…
First published in French in 1979, “The Ambivalence of Scarcity” was a groundbreaking work on mimetic theory. Now expanded upon…
In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and…
by Walter Burkert, René Girard, Jonathan Z. Smith Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin…
His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the ‘heart and secret soul’ of the…
An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard…
Girard, professor of the French language, literature, and civilization at Stanford, builds on his notable previous anthropological and literary examinations…
In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers, René Girard. This…
In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author’s…
Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the…
Mimesis and Theory bring together twenty of René Girard’s uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit,…
In Sacrifice, René Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with the mimetic theory that are too numerous and…
What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains endlessly. He has just lost…