As Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign in New York City came to a dramatic close, René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a revealing lens through which to interpret the emotional and symbolic ...

In his 1950s poem “Vespers,” W. H. Auden recalls a meeting of representatives of two different political standpoints. They come together: Nobody familiar with René Girard’s mimetic theory can read ...

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René Girard (December 25, 1923 - November 4, 2015), despite being a member of the French "Immortels" has passed away. But I think his influence is only still in its infancy. Girard has been called the ...

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 “mimetic” theory of Rene Girard, I suggest, offers us our best way to understand the extraordinary events of recent American politics, especially the extremes of love and hatred different ...

The theory of Mimetic Desire states that desire is fundamentally social: We want what other people want. According to the theory, most people view themselves as autonomous, making unique decisions ...

The White Lotus delivered some major surprises in the back end of this season (no pun intended) but one of the most intriguing things was a brief mention of something you may vaguely remember learning ...

Desires come in all shapes and sizes. Some of us want fancy cars above all else, while others could care less what they drive but desperately want their start-up to succeed. Other people want neither ...