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Escaping the Kingdom of Futility

René Girard's Mimetic Theory, Part 3

John Ganz
Dec 10, 2023
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The Barque of Dante, Delacroix

In Part 1 of this series on René Girard, I gave a broad overview of his contemporary relevance and introduced some intellectual context to make sense of his thought; in Part 2, I outlined the theory of triangular desire from his Girard’s first book Deceit, Desire, and the Novel and added a few additional pieces of context t…

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