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Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare
Oedipus Unbound
Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For René Girard, the mythic …
Anorexia and Mimetic Desire
Rene Girard shows that all desires are contagious--and the desire to be thin is no exception. In this compelling new book, Girard ties the anorexia epidemic to what he calls …
A Theatre of Envy
Daoism and Ecology
Until now, no single work has been devoted to both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition and a critical exploration of its contribution to recent …
Violence and the Sacred
Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. …
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith
The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic …
A Reinterpretation of Rousseau
In this radical reinterpretation of Rousseau, Jeremiah Alberg argues that the philosopher's system of thought is founded on theological scandal, and on Rousseau's inability to …
Violence and the Sacred
"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to …
Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden
Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between RenÉ Girard (1923–2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in …