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History is a test. Mankind is failing it.
René Girard scrutinizes the human condition from creation to apocalypse.
Stanford Magazine/July-August 2009/CYNTHIA HAVEN
René Girard
While the idea of mimesis is hardly foreign to the social sciences today, no one had made it a linchpin in a theory of human behavior and human destiny, as Girard did beginning in the 1950s. His one-man interdisciplinarity can present problems in academia, whose denizens haven't always condoned poaching.