… Haven ably, even elegantly, synopsizes the central tenets of Girard’s beliefs, in particular his pioneering views on mimesis—a kind of updated version of Rousseau’s amour propre—the notion that the desires and violent conflicts that often spring from people have their root cause in the gregarious mimicking of others.
Monday, April 16, 2018
A panoramic rendering …
… EVOLUTION OF DESIRE by Cynthia L. Haven | Kirkus Reviews.
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