As Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign in New York City came to a dramatic close, René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a revealing lens through which to interpret the emotional and symbolic ...

In Laurel and Hardy's "Big Business," two door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen fight a bad-tempered homeowner. The manic tit-for-tat escalates from head banging to a demolished house and an exploded ...

Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it ...

René Girard, the late French literary theorist and philosopher of social sciences, probably isn't the first intellectual who comes to mind when wrestling with the political tumult of 2018. But as ...

“Resurrection From the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky” by Rene Girard (translated and edited by James G. Williams, Michigan State University Press, $24.95, 120 pages) A generation or so ago, it was ...

According to French thinker René Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict ...

For some time now, theologians have been more than somewhat reserved regarding the oeuvre of René Girard. On the whole, they have often been tempted to either neglect or hastily dismiss his work on ...

René Girard, a French scholar best known for his work on desire, violence, and religion, died November 4 at age 91. Girard immigrated to the United States in 1950, teaching social science at several ...

I have begun reading Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World, a book-length interview (conducted by two psychiatrists) with the late philospher René Girard. Here’s what Peter Thiel told an ...

According to French thinker René Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict ...