Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure – by René Girard
This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural problems of our time.” Check out Deceit, Desire, and the Novel […]
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue – by René Girard
The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates the philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people’s public, private, and ethical lives. Christianity Truth and Weakening […]
Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre – by René Girard
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War, is known above all for his famous dictum: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In René Girard’s view, however, the strategist’s treatise offers up a more disturbing truth to the reader willing to extrapolate from its most daring observations: with modern […]
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 […]