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René Girard

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December 25, 1923 in Avignon , France

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Social Sciences, Philosophy

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Crítico literario, historiador y filósofo francés notable por su teoría de la mímesis que surgió en primera instancia para analizar obras literarias en las que se muestran relaciones interpersonales miméticas. Posteriormente fue aplicada al análisis de la violencia en las sociedades primitivas que se fundamentan en lo sagrado; y por extensión, a la violencia en las sociedades contemporáneas.
Se graduó en filosofía en Aviñón en 1941. Entre 1943 y 1947, estudió en la École des chartes en París, donde se especializó en historia medieval. Su doctorado en historia lo culminó en el año 1950 en la Universidad de Indiana, en los Estados Unidos.
Ha ejercido la docencia en la Universidad de Duke, Bryn Mawr College, y la Universidad Johns Hopkins en Bal...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 641 ratings · 82 reviews · 46 distinct works

	Violence and the Sacred by René Girard, Patrick Gregory (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions	My rating:
	I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard, James G. Williams (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Scapegoat 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by René Girard, Yvonne Freccero (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Girard Reader by René Girard, James Williams (Editor), James Wiliams (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann (Translator), Michael Metteer (Translator) 4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture by René Girard, Pierpaolo Antonello 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky by René Girard, James G. Williams (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Menzogna romantica e verità romanzesca. Le mediazioni del desiderio nella letteratura e nella vita 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1961 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.”
― René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

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