Delle cose nascoste sin dalla fondazione del mondo. Ricerche con Jean-Michel Oughourlian e Guy Lefort

Girard's basic thesis is well known; Human culture arose out of the resolution of mimetic desire. By nature we desire what is desired by others, this leads to conflict and ultimately murder. Institutions and rituals arise out of this act. Girard sees the Gospel texts of the New Testament as a revolu Leggi tutto

Le cose così come non sono “Le vittime ci sono sempre e ci sono sempre delle armi che ciascuno affila contro il vicino in uno sforzo disperato per procurarsi da qualche parte, fosse pure in un avvenire utopico indeterminato, una zona d'innocenza da abitare da solo o in compagnia di un'umanità rigener Leggi tutto

Girard'ın "kurban," "kutsal," "şiddet," "günah keçisi," "mimetik arzu" ile ilgili tezlerine yapılan itirazların görüşüldüğü; mevcut tezlerinin detaylandırıldığı ve örneklerle somutlandığı; bu tezlerin İncil ve Eski Ahit gibi kutsal metinlerin yanı sıra, Michel Foucault, Levi-Strauss ve Sigmund Freud Leggi tutto

This is one of the most seminal books I know from the second half of the twentieth century. As a religious person, a monk as it happens, and a yearner for peace, I have been perplexed by the intertwining of violence with religion, which supposedly preaches peace, and especially perplexed by the viol Leggi tutto

When we think about who we consider the most influential thinkers in continental philosophy (and of adjacent fields such as psychology and sociology), those that come to mind from the past few centuries include the likes of Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud. Each of them proposed monolithic theories Leggi tutto

SUMMARY BOOK 1 Mimesis, roughly imitation, is the fundamental learning mechanism of humans as evidenced by e.g. neuroscience. Acquisitive mimesis is when people desire to acquire objects partly because they in turn are desired by others. Examples of objects include food, weapons, and women. This gives o Leggi tutto

Like everyone else I know that has read this book, I read it because venture capitalist Peter Thiel said it was his favorite book ever and he seems pretty smart so I figured there was something there. Things Hidden is Girard’s most famous work on Mimetic Theory. Mimetic Theory’s key insight is that h Leggi tutto

All of Girard seems to be presented in this book, all the pseudoscientific nonsense in all its absurdities dressed up in an absoluteness guise with the revealing of the esoteric beyond the exoteric and Girard claims to be the only one who understands the foundation. I enjoyed the book immensely and

“Man differs from the other animals in his greater aptitude for imitation” - Aristotle, Poetics "I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I my brothers and my cousins against the world." - Bedouin saying This book contains some of the most high-voltage ideas I've ever come across, Leggi tutto