Violence and the Sacred by René Girard / Narrated by Peter NobleRequirements: .MP3 player, 489 mbOverview: Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard’s landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard’s forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the […]
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René (Rene) GirardRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 594 MBOverview: An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud’s Totem and […]
Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy by Cynthia L. HavenRequirements: .PDF reader, 2.9 MBOverview: French theorist René Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed the new Darwin of the human […]
A Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare by René (Rene) GirardRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MBOverview: In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of […]
The Scapegoat by René (Rene) GirardRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MBOverview: Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, René Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed “l’hypothèse girardienne,” have sparked interdisciplinary, even […]