René Girard on The Scapegoat

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René Girard on The Scapegoat

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1librorumamans
Mar 25, 2016, 12:33 pm

To mark this Easter season, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's program Ideas has repeated its series profiling Rene Girard's (Wikipedia) views on the scapegoat in human culture.

The series comprises five programs running 53 min. each, available as podcasts (at least for now). Episode one

While I think that Girard in places pushes his ideas too far, I also find his analysis full of rich ideas.