"[Girard] overturned three widespread assumptions about the nature of desire and violence: first, that our desire is a…"

"There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural …"

"When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver."

"The aggressor has always already been attacked. Why are relations of rivalry never seen as symmetrical? Because peopl…"

"The God of Christianity isn’t the violent God of archaic religion, but the non-violent God who willingly becomes a vi…"

"It was Plato who determined once and for all the cultural meaning of imitation, but this meaning is truncated, torn f…"

"An examination of our terms, such as competition, rivalry, emulation, etc., reveals that the traditional perspective …"

"Meine ganze Arbeit hatte zum Ziel zu zeigen, daß der christliche Glaube höherstehend ist und nicht bloß eine weitere …"

""Die mimetische Theorie reagiert auf die Neigung des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, überall nur Fiktives zu sehen. Auch he…"

"Let Man remember that he is the Master, but not a Tyrant."