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When these things begin : conversations with Michel Treguer
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ISBN: 1609174003 9781628950175 162895017X 9781609174002 1611861101 9781611861105 Year: 2014 Publisher: East Lansing Michigan State University Press

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In this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, René Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that "our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity." Globalization has unified the world, yet civil war and terrorism persist despite free trade and economic growth. Because of mimetic desire and the rivalry it generates, asserts Girard, "whether we're talking about marriage, friendship, professional relationships, issues with neighbors or matters of national


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Psychopolitics : conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill
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ISBN: 1628951060 1609173392 9781609173395 9781628961065 1628961066 9781611860535 1611860539 Year: 2012 Publisher: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press,

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For thousands of years, political leaders have unified communities by aligning them against common enemies. However, today more than ever, the search for "common" enemies results in anything but unanimity. Scapegoats like Saddam Hussein, for example, led to a stark polarization in the United States. Renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychologist Jean-Michel Oughourlian proposes that the only authentic enemy is the one responsible for both everyday frustrations and global dangers, such as climate change-ourselves. Oughourlian, who pioneered an "interdividual" psychology with René Girard, reveals


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The mimetic brain
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ISBN: 1609174763 9781609174767 9781611861891 1611861896 9781628952476 9781628962475 1628952474 Year: 2016 Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press,

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La conversion de l'art
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ISBN: 2081226405 9782081226401 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

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The time has grown short : René Girard, or the last law
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ISBN: 1628954639 1609176952 Year: 2022 Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press,

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"In this exploration of Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoît Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans into dialogue with both Proust and Girard in order to push to its logical endpoint the idea of a back-and-forth movement from chaos to order"--

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