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To read literature is to read the way literature reads. René Girard's immense body of work supports this thesis bountifully. Whether engaging the Euro...Lees meer
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Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly consid...Lees meer
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In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda , was man. And from man's sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the h...Lees meer
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Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Li...Lees meer
For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an ...Lees meer
A monster stalks the earth--a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This mo...Lees meer
During the last century humanity acquired the ability to destroy itself. The direct approach to destruction can be seen in such facts as the ever-pres...Lees meer
"Why is there so much violence in our midst?" René Girard asks. "No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers." In ...Lees meer
Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is "revelation" or "unveiling," the basis...Lees meer
René Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping v...Lees meer
For thousands of years, political leaders have unified communities by aligning them against common enemies. However, today more than ever, the search ...Lees meer
From his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World , René Girard's mimetic theory is presented as elu...Lees meer
Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digi...Lees meer
Giuseppe Fornari's groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche's neglected importance as a religious thinker and his "untimeliness" place hi...Lees meer
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War , is known above all for his famous dictum: "War is the continuat...Lees meer
The discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s led to an explosion of research and debate about the imitative capacities of the human brain. Some herald...Lees meer