For some time now, theologians have been more than somewhat reserved regarding the oeuvre of René Girard. On the whole, they have often been tempted to either neglect or hastily dismiss his work on ...

René Girard, one of the most influential Catholic philosophers in the world, died last week at the age of 91. Born in Avignon and a member of the illustrious Academie Francaise, Girard nevertheless ...

George Floyd’s terrible death at the hands of police, and the acts of violence and vandalism that accompanied some of the peaceful protests that followed, shocked the United States and the world. What ...

In Laurel and Hardy's "Big Business," two door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen fight a bad-tempered homeowner. The manic tit-for-tat escalates from head banging to a demolished house and an exploded ...

René Girard, a French scholar best known for his work on desire, violence, and religion, died November 4 at age 91. Girard immigrated to the United States in 1950, teaching social science at several ...

According to French thinker René Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict ...

Peace is the perennial hope of humanity. It is promised in the Bible, where God "extends peace … like a river." It was promised by the Enlightenment, which had grown tired of religion and thought that ...

I have begun reading Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World, a book-length interview (conducted by two psychiatrists) with the late philospher René Girard. Here’s what Peter Thiel told an ...

The documentary “Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard,” about the French thinker who developed the “mimetic desire” theory of conflict, will be screened at Hope College on Wednesday, Nov.

The French social theorist Rene Girard, who died in 2015, was what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog: a thinker who knows “one big thing.” That big thing was “mimesis,” or imitation; more specifically, ...