Internet Ressources on René Girard and the Mimetic Theory

• Top Girard Pages
• Introductions to the Work & Portraits of René Girard
• Biographies & Bibliographies of René Girard
• Interviews with René Girard
• Book Excerpts, Announcements and Reviews
• Online Monographs, Collective Works & Special Journal Issues on René Girard
• Online Articles on René Girard & the Mimetic Theory
• Critical Applications of René Girards Mimetic Theory
• Girard Dossiers/Link Collection

Top Girard Pages

• Rene Girard and the mimetic desire/René Girard et l'hypothèse du désir mimétique, by Philippe COTTET (bilingual)

• René Girard - Sommaire (Dominicains en Franche-Comté)

• René Girard - Perspectives Humaines & Perspectives Chrétiennes, by Dominique Irigaray

• Site René Girard & Violence et Sacré, by Jean Paul Kornobis (bilingual)

• À propos d'une histoire de Désir, by Daniel Lance

• Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary, by Paul Nuechterlein & Friends

Introductions to the Work & Portraits of René Girard

• The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion (CBC Radio: IDEAS)

• Rene Girard and the mimetic desire/René Girard et l'hypothèse du désir mimétique, by Philippe COTTET (bilingual)

• Girard (Dictionnaire des philosophes)

• René Girard - Sommaire (Dominicains en Franche-Comté)

• Introduction à la lecture de René Girard, by Pascal Goyeau

• René GIRARD, par Simon De Keukelaere

Biographies & Bibliographies of René Girard

• Cornerstone Forum Store, by Gil Bailie

• René Girard: Commented Bibliography, by Philippe Cottet

• Bibliography of Generative Anthropology, by Eric Gans

• Repères chronologiques, by Jean-Paul Kornobis

• Girardian Annotated Bibliography, by Paul Nuechterlein

• Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory of René Girard, Vol. 1-18, by Dietmar Regensburger

• René Girard (Yahoo! Encyclopédie)

• René Girard: La vita & le opere (anon.)

Interviews with René Girard

• "What Is Occurring Today Is a Mimetic Rivalry on a Planetary Scale." Interview by Henri Tincq, in: LE MONDE, November6, 2001, translated by Jim Williams

• "Ce qui se joue aujourd'hui est une rivalité mimétique à l'échelle planétaire." Interview by Henri Tincq, in: LE MONDE, November 6, 2001

• LE INTERVISTE DI RADIOTRE, DA IRENE SANTORI, November 4, 2000

• Essen ist voller Gewalt, by Otto Friedrich, in: Furche 41, Oktober 2000

• "Les Etats-Unis, puissance mentale. «Tout le monde crie contre le modèle mais tout le monde l’imite.« Interview by ANTOINE DE GAUDEMAR, in: Libération, November 27, 1999

• Interview with René Girard, by Markus Müller, in: Anthropoetics, June 1996)

• A quem tiver ouvidos - O Indivíduo entrevista René Girard (n.d.)

Book Announcements, Reviews and Excerpts,

Book Announcements & Descriptions

• Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads, by Gil Bailie (Cornerstone Forum)

• Das Opfer - aktuelle Kontroversen, ed. by Bernhard Dieckmann (LIT)

• Celui par qui le scandale arrive, by René Girard (Desclée de Brouwer)

• I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, by René Girard (Orbis Books)

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclair, by René Girard (Grasset)

• La Route antique des hommes pervers, by René Girard (Grasset)

• La Violence et le Sacré, by René Girard (Grasset)

• Le Bouc émissaire, by René Girard (Grasset)

• Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, by René Girard (Grasset)

• Quand ces choses commencerons, by René Girard (Arléa)

• Shakespeare, les affres de l'envie, by René Girard (Grasset)

• Vedo Satana cadere come la folgore, by René Girard (LiberOnWeb)

• Violence Renounced: René Girard, Biblical Studies, and Peacemaking, ed. Willard Swartley (Pandora Press)

Reviews

• The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, by James Alison (James G. Williams/First Things)

• Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads, by Gil Bailie (Rosann M. Catalano/New Theology Review)

• Delle cose nascoste sin dalla fondazione del mondo, by René Girard (Anna Grazia/Psychiatrie online)

• Il risentimento. Lo scacco del desiderio nell'uomo contemporaneo, by René Girard (Giovanni Molinari)

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclair, by René Girard (PHILIPPE LANçON/Libération)

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclair, by René Girard (Joseph Bosshard)

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclair, by René Girard (fr. Philippe)

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l’éclair, by René Girard (MICHEL DES BOSCS/ChristiCity.com)

• Resurrection from the Underground, by René Girard (Andrew McKenna/First Things)

• Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature, by Sandor Goodhart (Leslie Brisman/Criticism)

• Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics, by Jim Grote and John McGeeney (George Kilcourse/Cross Currents)

• Violence and Difference. Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction, by Andrew McKenna (Sandor Goodhart/Philosophy and Literature)

• JESUS OF NAZARETH: HOW HE UNDERSTOOD HIS LIFE, by Raymund Schwager (Clarence Thomson/National Catholic Reporter)

• The Girard Reader, ed. by James G. Williams (J. Bottum/First Things)

Excerpts

• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclair (first chapter), by René Girard (Grasset)

• "Rene Girard on the Joseph Narrative" (Excerpt from Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, by René Girard)

• "Rene Girard on Imitatio Christi" (Excerpt from "Violence Renounced: Response by René Girard," in: Violence Renounced, edited by Willard M. Swartley)

• "The Cross and the Transformation of Evil" (excerpt from Jesus in the Drama of Salvation, by Raymund Schwager)

Online Monographs, Collective Works & Special Journal Issues on René Girard

• Anthropoetics II/1 (1996): Special Issue on René Girard

• Religion 27/3 (1997): Special Issue on René Girard

• Brauchen wir einen Sündenbock: Gewalt und Erlösung in den biblischen Schriften, by Raymund Schwager

Online Articles on René Girard and the Mimetic Theory

english

• Rene Girard's insights into Christianity, Part 1: Violence and the Sacred, by Gil Bailie (Communio)

• Rene Girard's insights into Christianity, Part 2: The Mystery of Sin, by Gil Bailie (Communio)

• Kierkegaard and Girard, by Charles K. Bellinger (Contagion)

• Reading Rene Girard's and Walter Wink's Religious Critiques of Violence as Radical Communication Ethics, by Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast

• Two Footnotes: The Double Necessity of Girard and Gans, by Thomas Bertonneau (Anthropoetics)

• Girard Among the Girardians, by J. Bottum (First Things)

• The Child and the Beast: Fighting Violence in Ancient Christianity, by Francois Bovon (Harvard Theological Review)

• Imitate Me; Don't Imitate Me: Mimeticism in David Bartholomae's "Inventing the University", by Richard Boyd (JAC Online)

• Speed and Violence: Sacrifice in Virilio, Derrida, and Girard, by Mark Featherstone (Anthropoethics)

• Correspondence: Anthropology, Theology, and Rene Girard (First Things)

• The Public Square: The Most Intense Competition (First Things)

• Introductory Remarks, Eric Gans (Anthropoetics)

• Are the Gospels Mythical?, by René Girard (First Things)

• Visible Victim, by S. Mark Heim (The Christian Century)

• RACISM AS MIMETIC VIOLENCE, by Désirée Howells

• Roots of violence, by L. Gregory Jones (Christian Century)

• Caesar's Reviving Blood: Shakespeare and the Religion of Revolution, by Peter J. Leithart (Contra Mundum)xRené Girard and Biblical Criticism, by Sarah Lind (TIC Talk 27)

• Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness, by Andrew J. McKenna (First Things)

• The Question of the Origin of Language in René Girard, Eric Gans, and Kenneth Burke, by William Mishler (Anthropoethics)

• FROM JUST US TO JUSTICE, by Duncan Morrow (Lion & Lamb)

• Alternatives to Violence: A Scientific Approach via the Hypothesis of René Girard?, by Chris Morrissey

• Prospectus, by Martha J. Reineke

• Mimetic Polemicism: René Girard and Harold Bloom contra the "School of Resentment" - A Review Essay, by Matthew Schneider (Anthropoetics)

• Philosophy and Its Other--Violence: A Survey of Philosophical Repression From Plato to Girard, by Tobin Siebers (Anthropoetics)

• René Girard Without the Cross? Religion and the Mimetic Theory, by James Williams (Anthropoetics)

• Ethnicity: Difference, Violence, and Origin, by Nils Zurawski

french

• Apollonius de Tyane contre René Girard, by Louis BENOIT

• Oedipe vu par René Girard, by Michel. B.

• Philip K. Dick et le conflit mimétique, by Philippe Cottet

• Experiences de non-violence, by Yann Forget

• Girard, l'accident chrétien, by Phillippe Lançon (Libération)

• Rene Girard ou le mécanisme victimaire, by Yannick Rolandeau

• La violence légitime - la loi de la violence, by Michael Totschnig

• Caïn ou la naissance du meurtre, Anon.

• XXe siècle: Le regard de René Girard (la vie/anon.)

german

• Dramatische Theologie als Forschungsprogramm, by Forschungsgruppe Innsbruck (ZkTh)

• Gewalt und Religion?! Friedensstiftender Opferritus?, by Dietmar Freund

• Pluralismus - ethische Grundintuition - Kirche, by Wilhelm Guggenberger and Wolfgang Palaver (ZkTh)

• Vom Fluch und Segen der Sündenböcke (Einleitung), by Józef Niewiadomski und Wolfgang Palaver

• Sic et Non: Auschwitz - ein Versoehungsopfer? (Andreas Roser)

• Befreiung der Begierde: Theologie zwischen René Girard und Karl Rahner, by Willibald Sandler

• Nachfolge Christi und das double-bind der Autonomie- Erziehung, by Willibald Sandler

• Dissozialität: Dialog zwischen Theologie und Psychiatrie, by Raymund Schwager

• René Girard - Hermeneutik der Verfolgung: Ein virtuelles Seminar, von Ulrich Schödlbauer

• Opferzeichen und totale Herrschaft. Rene Girard und Hannah Arendt im Vergleich, by Milan Weiß

spanish/portugiese

• Girard: a revolução - por Olavo de Carvalho (Bravo!/anon.)

• René Girard e a coletividade homicida, by Olavo de Carvalho

• El deseo "triangular" en Pedro Páramo, by Roberto Gómez Estrada

italian

• Girard e il sacrificio, by LUISA BORTOLOTTI

• René Girard e la violenza (GAZZETTA DI PARMA/anon.)

dutch

• RENE GIRARD, HET ZONDEBOKMECHANISME EN HET DENKEN VAN ARISTOTELES, by Bert Mosselmans en Ernest Mathijs

Critical Applications of René Girards Mimetic Theory

• Monstrous Theologies: The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi Pulps, by Thomas F. Bertonneau (Anthropoethics)

• The Violence of the Sacred: The Economy of Sacrifice in »The Cenci«, by Robert M. Corbett (Romanticism On the Net)

• Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard, by Ken Derry and Tony Michael (Journal of Religion & Film)

• Critical Thinking: Girardian Theory and Advertising, by Eric Evers

• Cracking Cube: Cryptology And Ichnography, by Mark Featherstone

• Mimetic Paradox and the Event of Human Origin, by Eric Gans (Anthropoetics)

• Im Spiegel des Anderen - Konkurrenz als kulturgeschichtlicher Topos, by Thorsten Hapke

• Transcendental Tragedy, Rev. Carol A. Huston (U.S. Terrorist Attacks: Responses from Unitarian Universalist Clergy/Homily, Sermon)

• À propos d'une histoire de Désir, by Daniel Lance

• The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice, by Donald G. Mathews (Journal of Southern Religion)

• Bess the Christ Figure?: Theological Interpretations of Breaking the Waves, by Linda Mercadante (Journal of Religion & Film)

• Matisse and Picasso: a gentle rivalry, by Linda Nochlin (ArtForum)

• The Color of the Enemy in the New Millennium, by Jim Perkinson (Cross Currents)

• The Sacrificial Aesthetic: Blood Rituals from Art to Murder, by Dawn Perlmutter (Anthropoethics)

• Deep-Rooted Conflict And A Culture Of Peace, by Vern Neufeld Redekop (CHRF newsletter)

• Dramatic Theology as a Research Program, Research Program "Religion - Violence - Comnunication - World Order"

• »KRIEG gegen den TERRORISMUS«?: Aktuelle Texte zum Terrorismus im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Gewalt, by Research Program "Religion - Violence - Communication - World Order"

• The double-bind of education for autonomy, by Willibald Sandler

• Dem Netz des Jägers entronnen, by Raymund Schwager

• Film Violence and the Institutionalization of the Cinema, by J. David Slocum (Social Research)

• Samples and copycats: the cultural implications of the postmodern slasher in contemporary American film, by Todd F. Tietchen (Journal of Popular Film and Television)

• The Execution of Timothy McVeigh: Ritual Sacrifice in America, by Gene C. Toews (Ask Hermes)

Girard Dossiers/Link Collections

• Rene Girard and the mimetic desire/René Girard et l'hypothèse du désir mimétique, by Philippe COTTET

• De theorieën van René Girard, by Annelies de Jeu

• Buchreihe: Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie (LIT Verlag)

• More C Communications Inc., by Chris Morrissey

• Girardian Annotated Bxibliography, by Paul Nuechterlein

• René Girard (L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora/anon.)

• RENÉ GIRARD (Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia/anon.)

Suggestions of further Girardian Websites please mail to:
Dietmar.Regensburger@uibk.ac.at
(Links to suggested web pages within the mail would be of great help!)