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November 5, 2015 Leave a Comment

René Girard died yesterday. He was an eccentric thinker, who built a unique theory of society from the ground up. He articulated a newish metaphysics of desire, which necessarily leads to violence; the violence is then focused into a sacrifice that brings harmony, and… Continue Reading →

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