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Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory
A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Rene Girard, this essential text explains its three main …
Evolution of Desire
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 …
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. This book offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the …
Mimesis and Science
This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of Rene Girard's mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, …
Animals as Neighbors
In this fascinating book, Terry O’Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology - the …
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 …
The World of René Girard
In 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with RenÉ Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a …
Mourning in the Anthropocene
Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues in this eloquent and urgent …
Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence
The first systematic study of the Qur’an and Islamic history in the light of René Girard’s mimetic theory.This groundbreaking book offers the first systematic study of the Qur?an …
Cormac Mccarthy
This definitive assessment of Cormac McCarthy’s novels captures the interactions among the literary and mythic elements, the social dynamics of violence, and the natural world in …