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I’m interested in reading the books of the French Sociologist Rene Girard. Where do I start?

I’m personally interested in his take on the “scapegoating mechanism” idea.

>> No.18662038

>>18661994
>Literary critic and philosopher Kenneth Burke first coined and described the expression scapegoat mechanism in his books Permanence and Change (1935),[14] and A Grammar of Motives (1945).
>Permanence and Change (1935)
>A Grammar of Motives (1945)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating#Scapegoat_mechanism

Was it so hard?

>> No.18662039
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>>18661994
Wolfgang Palavers "Rene Girards Mimetic Theory" is a good starter. I wish I had read that first. I got into Girard by first reading "Violence and the Sacred" followed by "Things Hidden".

>> No.18662407

>>18662039
Do you think it is worth reading Palaver's book even if I have already read Violence and the Sacred?

>> No.18662538

>>18662407
Yeah, it's a good read

>> No.18662598

>>18662039
>extreme right
>nietzsche
lmao