The One by Whom Scandal Comes

by René Girard

"Why is there so much violence in our midst?" Ren Girard asks. "No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers." In Girard's mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else's desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861098
• ISBN13: 9781611861099
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"