René Girard and Western Philosophy - Part 1: Girardian Basics

Andreas Wilmes completed his PhD in philosophy at the Paris Descartes University. He is a lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary) and editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence.
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[technologicalsociety]

Great overview of Girard's key ideas—thanks! This is the first time I've heard about his final, unfinished book project on environmentalism.

[gl]

Insightful discussion, thanks. Deceit, Desire and the Novel (Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque) is a tremendous chef d'oeuvre. I'd like to highlight that one needs not be a Christian to read Girard — same for his other books

[Baczkowa]

What? Wait a moment. So there were non-Jews in the crowd? The apostles were Jewish. There was no such thing as a Christian in that crowd.

[rossgopicotrain]

Girard's theory (triangular mimetics) - at the very least the expansion of said theory - is revolutionary; however, one must ponder on the state of ignorance/silence of Girard vis-a-vis how said theory could be employed by those in power positions of society for the furtherance of their agendas of power and control! That is all!! RGB-Y4 out!!!