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    According to French thinker René Girard, early human communities faced perpetual conflict and violence over desired objects, forcing them to unite against scapegoats. Biblical stories like Cain and Abel and Jesus' crucifixion reveal the innocence of victims and helped societies overcome this pattern. Girard's influential ideas were explored in a radio series, and he wrote several books on topics like violence, sacrifice, and desire before his death in 2015. The series on his thought continues exploring its intellectual importance.

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    According to French thinker René Girard, early human communities faced perpetual conflict and violence over desired objects, forcing them to unite against scapegoats. Biblical stories like Cain and Abel and Jesus' crucifixion reveal the innocence of victims and helped societies overcome this pattern. Girard's influential ideas were explored in a radio series, and he wrote several books on topics like violence, sacrifice, and desire before his death in 2015. The series on his thought continues exploring its intellectual importance.

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    According to French thinker René Girard, early human communities faced perpetual conflict and violence over desired objects, forcing them to unite against scapegoats. Biblical stories like Cain and Abel and Jesus' crucifixion reveal the innocence of victims and helped societies overcome this pattern. Girard's influential ideas were explored in a radio series, and he wrote several books on topics like violence, sacrifice, and desire before his death in 2015. The series on his thought continues exploring its intellectual importance.

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    René Girard believed that human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict over desired objects. This conflict threatened violence in early communities, so they chose scapegoats against whom to unite.

    According to Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. This conflict created a permanent threat of violence in early human communities.

    Girard says that early human communities dealt with internal conflict by choosing a victim, or scapegoat, against whom the community could unite.

    Thursday March 03, 2016

    The Scapegoat: The Ideas of René Girard,


    Part 1

    French-born historian, literary critic and social sciencist René Girard is shown in Paris in this
    1990 file photo. (Derrick Ceyrac/AFP/Getty Images)

    Listen to Full Episode 53:58


    According to French thinker René Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in
    perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities,
    this conflict created a permanent threat of violence and forced our ancestors to find a way to
    unify themselves. They chose a victim, a scapegoat against whom the community could unite.
    Biblical religion, according to Girard, has attempted to overcome this historic plight. From the
    unjust murder of Abel by his brother Cain to the crucifixion of Christ, the Bible reveals the
    innocence of the victim. It is on this revelation that modern society unquietly rests.

    Girard's ideas influenced social scientists over his long career as a writer and teacher, until his
    death in the fall of 2015. In this classic IDEAS series, David Cayley explores the thought
    of René Girard. The series continues on March 4, 10, 11 & 17.

    Ideas

    Paul Kennedy and scholar Sandor Goodhart on René Girard's intellectual importance

    00:06 00:46

    "Religion is the means through which the order created, the peace created by the first
    murder, turns gradually into a cultural system. Humanity is the child of religion, in a way
    religion is like the placenta which protects the new-born and gets discarded when he's
    really born." -- René Girard

    René Girard's ideas fit no academic niche but they've attracted many followers during his long
    career as a teacher and writer. A large annual conference called The Colloquium on Violence
    & Religion is devoted entirely to his ideas, as is a journal called Contagion. Many of those who
    take part believe that Girard's insights are an intellectual breakthrough.

    René Girard was born in the southern French city of Avignon in 1923, and emigrated to the
    United States in 1947. He taught throughout his career at American universities, retiring from
    Stanford in 1995. The first of his nine books, Deceit Desire & the Novel, was published in 1961.

    Reading list:

    René Girard's books were generally written originally in French and later translated into English.
    Publication dates are for the English versions. These are only a few of his books

     Deceit, Desire and the Novel, 1966


     Violence and The Sacred, 1977
     The Scapegoat, 1986
     Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 1987
     Job, The Victim of His People, 1987
     The Girard Reader, 1996
     I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, 2001

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