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Pages: 576
Authors: Wolfgang Palaver
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

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A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text ex
Evolution of Desire
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Authors: Cynthia L Haven
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

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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 vision
Violence and the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: René Girard
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-13 - Publisher: A&C Black

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René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and t
Anorexia and Mimetic Desire
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Authors: René Girard
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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 t
René Girard and the Nonviolent God
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Authors: Scott Cowdell
Categories: Philosophy
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In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develo