CONTENTS:

Gardner, Stephen: The Ontological Obsessions of Radical Thought 1

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre: On the Rationality of Sacrifice 23

Ciuba, Gary M.: Ransom's God Without Thunder: Remythologizing Violence and Poeticizing the Sacred 40

Ernst, Gary:"Murther, By a Specious Name": Absalom and Achitophel's Poetics of Sacrificial Surrogacy 61

Goldman, Peter: Iconoclasm in the Old and New Testaments 83

Vanheeswijck, Guy: The Place of René Girard in Contemporary Philosophy 95

Erving, George: René Girard and the Legacy of Alexandre Kojeve111

Palaver, Wolfgang: Mimesis and Scapegoating in the Works of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant 126

Dumouchel, Paul: Indifference and Envy: The Anthropological Analysis of Modern Ecnomy 149

Machuco Rosa, António: Complex Systems, Imitation, and Mythical Explanations 161

Notes on Contributors 182