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The Top 18 Books About Mimetic Theory
1. Sacrifice 2. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 3. Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard 4. The Ambivalence ofScarcityand Other Essays 5. A Refuge of Lies 6. Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard 7. Girard’s Mimetic Theory 8. The Palgrave handbook on Mimetic Theory 9.
- Sacrifice
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
- The Ambivalence ofScarcityand Other Essays
- A Refuge of Lies
- Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
- Girard’s Mimetic Theory
- The Palgrave handbook on Mimetic Theory
- The Mimetic Brain
- The Construction of Social Reality
- Modern Social Imaginaries
- René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology
- The Phantom of the Ego
- Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioral, Social and Communicative Dimensions
- How We Became Human: Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins
- Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion
- Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines
- Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
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