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All Desire Is a Desire for Being
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By René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven (Selected by), Cynthia L. Haven (Editor), Cynthia L. Haven (Introduction)
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How we are motivated to imitate wanting what others desire—Girard’s theory primed for the social media age.
A Penguin Classic
René Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, history, religion and theology. Influencing such writers as J. M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera, his insight into contagious violence looks ever more prophetic and relevant seven years after his death. In many ways he is the thinker for our modern world of social media a...
A Penguin Classic
René Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, history, religion and theology. Influencing such writers as J. M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera, his insight into contagious violence looks ever more prophetic and relevant seven years after his death. In many ways he is the thinker for our modern world of social media a...