Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare (Carthage reprint)
Girard's point o departure is what he calles "mimesis," the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in ind... See more
O'Reilly Media • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The single victim mechanism only functions by means of the ignorance of those who keep it working.
René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
The desire that lives through imitation almost always leads to conflict, and this conflict frequently leads to violence.
René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
René Girard, Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
René Girard, Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
Once we apprehend the biblical criticism of mimetic contagion and its results, we can understand the biblical profundity of the talmudic principle that Emmanuel Lévinas often cites: “If everyone is in agreement to condemn someone accused, release him for he must be innocent.” Unanimity in human groups is rarely a vehicle of truth; more often it is
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