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    Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

    Dr Rene Girard

    Rene Girard is a brilliant and striking intellectual of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin of culture has been at…

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    Violence and the Sacred

    Dr Rene Girard

    An analysis of Greek drama and the basis of social violence.

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    Conversations with Rene Girard: Prophet of Envy

    Dr Rene Girard

    French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee…

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    Conversations with Rene Girard: Prophet of Envy

    Dr Rene Girard

    French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee…

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    Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

    Dr Rene Girard

    Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of…

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    Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991

    The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist Rene Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in…

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    Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991

    The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist Rene Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in…

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    Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

    Dr Rene Girard

    This is the single fullest summation of the ideas of one of the most eminent and controversial cultural theorists of our time.

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    Tragic Novels, Rene Girard and the American Dream: Sacrifice in Suburbia

    Dr. Carly Osborn (University of Adelaide, Australia)

    This book draws on the philosopher Rene Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road)…

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    Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

    Dr Rene Girard,Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha,Pierpaolo Antonello

    Rene Girard is a brilliant and striking intellectual of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin of culture has been at…

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    The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

    Dr. Trevor Cribben Merrill

    Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera’s place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of ‘period pieces’…

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    The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

    Dr. Trevor Cribben Merrill

    Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera’s place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of ‘period pieces’…

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    Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2: Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love and Literature

    This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of Rene Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines…

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    Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2: Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love and Literature

    This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of Rene Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines…

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    Selfhood and Sacrifice: RenA © Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

    Dr Andrew O'Shea

    In an age when religious violence and the role of practical reason in the secular sphere are continually juxtaposed, the author offers fresh possibilities of responding to the problems of…

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    Selfhood and Sacrifice: RenA © Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

    Dr Andrew O'Shea

    Offers an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. This book offers a novel interpretation of Girard’s work that opens up his discourse on violence and the…

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