Jill Bialosky is an executive editor at W. W. Norton and most recently the author of the literary memoir Poetry Will Save Your Life. She’s also a plagiarist according to poet and critic William Logan, ...

The documentary “Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard,” about the French thinker who developed the “mimetic desire” theory of conflict, will be screened at Hope College on Wednesday, Nov.

A timely new documentary about René Girard, the thinker who coined “mimetic desire.” Offering a deeply personal portrait of Girard the man and a sweeping narrative of his unfolding thought, Things ...

Former Montpellier and Lille boss Rene Girard has been announced as the new coach of Nantes, starting from the end of this season. The 62-year-old has agreed a deal to take charge for the next two ...

The thought of René Girard (1923-2015), the late professor Emeritus at Stanford University, is recognized worldwide as a theory of desire and violence, and of how these structure human culture. An ...

The French polymath René Girard presents a compelling argument that all desire is mimetic. According to Girard, we don’t actually know what we want; instead, we imitate the desires of others. These ...