How We Became Human: Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins
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 theory is presented as elucidating “the origins of culture.” He posits that archaic religion (or “the sacred”), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma […]