Evolution of desire: a life of ren� girard - Cynthia L. Haven

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• Ren Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny.
• His oeuvre, offering a mimetic theory of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers as Milan Kundera and J.
• M.
• Coetzee, and earned him a place among the forty immortals of the Acad mie Fran aise.
• Too often, however, his work is considered only within various academic specializations.
• This first-ever biographical study takes a wider view.
• Cynthia L.
• Haven traces the evolution of Girard's thought in parallel with his life and times.
• She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare.
• Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of Ren Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century's most controversial and original minds.