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René Girard

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René Girard

French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science

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Born: 1923-12-25
Died: 2015-11-04

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1974-03-25

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Total plays: 117

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Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

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Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

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The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications

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Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer

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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

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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

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Key dates

Born: 25 December 1923
Died: 4 November 2015

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Instance of: human
Given name: Théophile
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Avignon
Place of death: Stanford
Occupation: writer
Educated at: Indiana University Bloomington
Employer: Johns Hopkins University
Languages spoken: French
Religion: Catholicism
Award: Today Prize
Notable work: Violence and the Sacred
Field of work: literary criticism
Image: René Girard.jpg

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P463: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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P737: Claude Lévi-Strauss
P6886: French
P1889: René Girard
P1196: natural causes

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École des chartes

Dante Alighieri

Friedrich Nietzsche

René Descartes

Augustine of Hippo

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Duke University faculty

École Nationale des Chartes alumni

French Christian pacifists

French former atheists and agnostics

French literary critics

French male non-fiction writers

French Roman Catholic writers

Indiana University Bloomington alumni

Members of the Académie Française

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