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René Girard (1923–2015)

Author of Violence and the Sacred

Includes the names: Rene Girard, Rene Girard, Réne Girard, René Girard, ed. Rene Girard, René Girard, René Girard, René Girard, Professor René Girard, Professor René Girard ... (see complete list), Rene; Rene Girard (Author) Girard, Patrick (translator) Rene; Gregory Girard

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René Girard was born on December 25, 1923 in Avignon, France. He received an advanced degree in medieval studies at the École Nationale des Chartes in 1947 and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University in 1950. He taught French language and literature at Indiana University, Duke University, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and the State University at Buffalo. He taught at Stanford University from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. His explorations of literature and myth helped establish influential theories about how people are motivated to want things. His first book, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, was published in French in 1961 and in English in 1965. His other works included Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Modern Language Association in 2009 and the Order of Isabella the Catholic from the king of Spain for his work in philosophy and anthropology in 2013. He died on November 4, 2015 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Violence and the Sacred… (more)
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Violence and the Sacred 803 copies, 10 reviews
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 478 copies, 5 reviews
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning 466 copies, 6 reviews
The Scapegoat 408 copies, 1 review
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure 347 copies, 2 reviews
The Girard Reader (Author) 184 copies, 1 review
Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare (Carthage reprint) 132 copies, 2 reviews
Job: The Victim of His People 91 copies, 1 review
The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences… 90 copies
Resurrection from the underground : Feodor Dostoevsky 80 copies, 2 reviews
Achever Clausewitz 69 copies, 3 reviews
Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture 69 copies, 1 review
The one by whom scandal comes 58 copies, 1 review
Proust: A Collection of Critical Essays 56 copies
To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology 52 copies
Sacrifice (Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory) 46 copies, 1 review
When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel Treguer 33 copies
La Voix méconnue du réel 22 copies
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 20 copies
Critique dans un souterrain 16 copies
Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire 14 copies
Verità o fede debole? Dialogo su cristianesimo e relativismo 14 copies
Anorexie et désir mimétique 11 copies, 1 review
Christianisme et modernité 9 copies
René Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991… 8 copies
Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy 7 copies
Romantik Yalan ve Romansal Hakikat 6 copies
Sanglantes origines 6 copies
Il risentimento. Lo scacco del desiderio nell'uomo contemporaneo 5 copies
A conversão da arte 4 copies
Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden: A Discussion with René Girard at… 4 copies
Quando Começarem a Acontecer Essas Coisas (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 4 copies
RenE Girard All Desire is a Desire for Being /anglais 4 copies
O Trágico e a Piedade 4 copies
Dieu, une invention? (Author) 3 copies, 2 reviews
Revista Anthropos : huellas del conocimiento 3 copies, 1 review
Clausewitz en los extremos : política, guerra y apocalipsis 3 copies
Şiddet ve Kutsal 3 copies
Architects and Mimetic Rivalry 3 copies
Gewalt und Religion: Gespräche mit Wolfgang Palaver 3 copies
La vittima e la folla: Violenza del mito e cristianesimo 3 copies
Dostoyevski - Yeralti Insani 2 copies
Geometrie del desiderio 2 copies
IL caso Nietzsche. La ribellione fallita dell'anticristo 2 copies
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar… 2 copies
René Girard com teólogos da libertação: Um diálogo sobre… 2 copies
Kellariloukon psykologia : esseitä 1 copy
Kültürün kökenleri 1 copy
Lições de René Girard na UniverCidade 1 copy
ジラールと悪の問題 (りぶらりあ選書) : ET LE PROBLÈME DU… 1 copy
"On Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ " [article], Anthropoetics… 1 copy
La pietra scartata: antigiudaismo cristiano e antropologia evangelica 1 copy
Um Longo Argumento do Princípio ao Fim 1 copy, 1 review
"To double business bound" : essays on literature, mimesis, and… 1 copy
"On War and Apocalypse" 1 copy
"Insights with Rene Girard" 1 copy
Vom Fluch und Segen der Sündenböcke 1 copy
Violence and the Sacred (Continuum Impacts) (Continuum Impacts) (Continuum… 1 copy
Günah Keçisi 1 copy
Comprendre. Revista catalana de filosofia. Any X. 2008/1-2 1 copy
La conversion de l'art : Avec un DVD Le sens de l'histoire… 1 copy
Figuren des Begehrens: Das Selbst und der Andere in der fiktionalen… 1 copy
« The passionate oxymoron in Romeo and Juliet », ()Journal… 1 copy
Delle cose nascoste sin dalla fondazione del mondo 1 copy, 1 review
To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology 1 copy
Job: The Victim of His People 1 copy
I See Satan Fall 1 copy
Battling to the End: Conversations with Benot Chantre 1 copy
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar… 1 copy
The One by Whom Scandal Comes (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture) 1 copy
¿iddet ve kutsal 1 copy
La vittima e la folla violenza del mito e cristianesimo 1 copy
Dünyanin Kurulusundan Beri Gizli Kalmis Sirlar 1 copy
L'Abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains… 1 copy
Struttura e personaggi nel romanzo moderno 1 copy
Η ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΟΔΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΣΕΒΩΝ 1 copy
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Canonical name
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Girard, René Noël Théophile
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Date of birth
1923-12-25
Date of death
2015-11-04
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
France
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Birthplace
Avignon, France
Place of death
Stanford, California, USA
Cause of death
Places of residence
Avignon, France (Birth)
Paris, France
Education
École des Chartes, Paris (Medieval history, 1943-47)
Indiana University (PhD | History | 1950)
Occupations
teacher
historian
literary critic
philosopher of science
Relationships
Girard, Martha (wife)
Girard, Joseph (father)
Agents
Organizations
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Stanford University
Awards and honors
Guggenheim Fellowship (1959)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1966)
Honorary degree, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1985)
Honorary degree, UFSIA (1995)
Honorary degree, Università degli Studi di Padova (2001)
Short biography
René Noël Théophile Girard, né à Avignon le 25 décembre 1923, est un philosophe français, membre de l'Académie française depuis 2005. Ancien élève de l'École des chartes et professeur émérite de littérature comparée à l'université Stanford et à l'Université Duke aux États-Unis, il est l’inventeur de la théorie mimétique qui, à partir de la découverte du caractère mimétique du désir, a jeté les bases d’une nouvelle anthropologie. Il se définit lui-même comme un anthropologue de la violence et du religieux.
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