The Scapegoat - René Girard // 271 (preview)

All episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsWe discuss cannibalism, the communicative value of rioting, and the English news coverage of the French riots.The paper "Can Riots Represent?" can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12989 

René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on sacrifice from Violence and the Sacred (ht ...  Show more

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