“René Girard never played the Great Man,” says biographer.

René Girard was an influential theorist, member of the Académie française, professor at Stanford since 1981, and a revert to Catholicism. Stanford University will hold a memorial service in his honor today.  You can read his official obituary here and a brief summary of his thinking here. Cynthia Haven and I met over An Invisible Rope: Portraits of [Read More...]