Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard

Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard

Cynthia L. Haven

346 pages

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 of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a “mimetic theory” of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers
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