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The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence
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Mimetic desire enables us to escape from the animal realm. It is responsible for the best and the worst in us, for what lowers us below the animal level as well as what elevates us above it. Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.
René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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Gavin de Becker • The Gift of Fear
If becoming human involves, among other things, acquiring mimetic desire, it is obvious that humans could not exist in the beginning without sacrificial institutions that repress and moderate the kind of conflict that is inevitable with the working of mimetic desire.
René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Il est attiré par les présocratiques, notamment par leur concept d ’agôn, l’idée qu’on ne développe ses dons naturels que dans la compétition, et il se méfie énormément de tous ceux qui renoncent à la compétition pour se prétendre altruistes. Dans ce domaine, son mentor reste Schopenhauer. Nul ne souhaite, pense-t-il, aider autrui : au contraire, le
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Luke Burgis • Cargo Cult Startups
How then should one explain the universal presence of religion, supposedly so useless, right at the heart of all human institutions? When this question is asked in a rationalist context, there is only one really logical response, that of Voltaire: religion is defined as a parasite that attaches itself from outside to useful institutions. “Deceitful
... See moreRené Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
its consistency derives from a mimetic separation.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
There have been two major social inventions in history that mitigated the negative consequences of mimetic desire: the scapegoat mechanism and the market economy.