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René Girard
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French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
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René Noël Théophile Girard (1923–2015) was a French and American philosopher, historian, anthropologist, and university teacher. Born in Avignon, he was educated at the École des chartes and Indiana University Bloomington. Girard held positions at Johns Hopkins University, the University at Buffalo, Bryn Mawr College, and Stanford University, where he died of disease. He was a member of the Académie Française and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His notable work includes *Violence and the Sacred*. Girard received the Knight of the Legion of Honour, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Today Prize. He was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss and wrote in French. Other listed works include *2000 Years and Beyond* and *Dostoïevski, du double à l'unité*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2015
- Works
- 54
Top works
- La violencia y lo sagrado - 5. ed.
- 2000 Years and Beyond
- Dostoïevski, du double à l'unité
- Sartre
- Romantiko pseudos & mythistorēmatikē alētheia
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1974-03-25
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 117
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,542x
- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,406x
- Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer
· 2002 · cited 7,506x
- Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the EORTC-NCIC trial
· 2009 · cited 6,597x
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Quotes
- “The aggressor has always already been attacked. Why are relations of rivalry never seen as symmetrical? Because people always have the impression that the other is the first to attack, that they are never the ones who begin, though in a way they are always the ones. Individualism is a formidable lie. We make others understand that we recognize the signs of aggressiveness which they manifest, and they in turn interpret our posture as aggression.”
- “The God of Christianity isn’t the violent God of archaic religion, but the non-violent God who willingly becomes a victim in order to free us from our violence.”
- “There is always an attempt to move away from the Cross, that is, to perpetuate man’s misrecognition of his violence and protect his pride from the revelation. Without the Cross, there is no revelation of the fundamental injustice of the scapegoat mechanism, which is the founder of human culture, with all its repercussions in our relationships with each other.”
- “When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.”
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Key facts
- Born
- René Noël Théophile Girard , ( 1923-12-25 ) 25 December 1923, Avignon , France
- Died
- 4 November 2015 (2015-11-04) (aged 91), Stanford, California , U.S.
- Education
- École Nationale des Chartes ( MA ), Indiana University Bloomington ( PhD )
- Known for
- Fundamental anthropology , Mimetic theory , Mimetic desire , Mimetic double bind , Scapegoat mechanism as the origin of sacrifice and foundation of human culture, Girard's theory of group conflict
- Spouse
- Martha Girard
- Awards
- Académie française ( Seat 37 ), Knight of the Légion d’honneur , Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Fields
- History , literary criticism , philosophy of social science
- Institutions
- Duke University , Bryn Mawr College , Johns Hopkins University , State University of New York at Buffalo , Stanford University
- Doctoral students
- Sandor Goodhart
- Other notable students
- Andrew Feenberg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Théophile
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Avignon
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- Violence and the Sacred
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Image
- René Girard.jpg
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- Commons category
- René Girard
- date of birth
- 1923-12-25
- date of death
- 2015-11-04
- name in native language
- René Girard
- birth name
- René Noël Théophile Girard
- cause of death
- disease
- influenced by
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- writing language
- French
- different from
- René Girard
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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