Rene Girard: Why do you worship power? Friederich Nietzche: If one wants to create a god, one must proceed as if creating a man. One must conceive of the god as something one has never conceived before, something one has to create from nothing. One creates the idea of the god, then creates the god. … Read more
Over the past century, psychology has become one of the most respected and widely-studied scientific disciplines. In recent years, psychologists have made groundbreaking strides in our understanding of human behavior, cognition, and emotion. While the field of psychology has come a long way, there is still much to learn. For example, psychologists are just beginning … Read more
Mimesis and Science, edited by Scott R. Garrels, brings together some of the best scholar of Girard’s mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences In the science of man and culture today there is a unilateral swerve away from anything that could be called mimicry, imitation, or mimesis. And … Read more
Selected excerpts from Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World by Rene Girard. Fundamental Anthropology “The most we can do is to recognize as the one who produces symbolic forms, systems of signs, and who then confuses them with ‘reality’ itself, forgetting that in order to make reality meaningful he interposes an always particular … Read more