Subscribers to the St. Austin Review will know that we recently published an article about the French philosopher René Girard. This thought-provoking and provocative thinker has just moved on from this vale (and veil) of tears. Here’s his obituary from the UK’s Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Possibly the greatest mind of the twentieth century. Everyone else so labeled created an impact on us (as object); Girard reveals us (as subject), exposing the serpent of the Eden psyche. His theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating transcend psychology (personal and communal) to arrive at the very doorstep of Christian theology.