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For those who've never heard of Girard's theories, this is a better (and more concise) starting point: http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro http://www.imitatio.

For those who've never heard of Girard's theories, this is a better (and more concise) starting point: http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro Then you can read the link above, which assumes you're familiar with this stuff and pokes fun at it in the in the most verbose way possible.

Kina 5y ago
> Back more than 50 years ago, René Girard started teaching French literature because he needed a job. He hadn't even read many of the books he was assigned to teach. Then, as he studied the classic novels of Stendhal and Proust with a fresh mind, staying one step ahead of his students, he was struck by a series of similarities from novel to novel. Unbound by any narrow research agenda, Girard discovered a simple but powerful pattern that had eluded sophisticated critics before him: imitation is the fundamental mechanism of human behavior. This could be a hagiography or a joke, it works either way.