Rene Girard's Accusation: Intellectuals Are the Castrators of Meaning: "After Language, Man Is Becoming Deconstructed": Eugenics Is a Form of Human Sacrifice: "Sexuality Is the Problem, Not the Solution": The Ruthless Ideas of a Great Thinker (Documentation) (Interview) (Reprint)
By Modern Age
- Release Date: 2008-03-22
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Description
Despite being 84 years of age, Rene Girard has lost none of his nerve as a definitively radical thinker. He is working on a new essay about Karl von Clausewitz. The author of great contemporary works such as Violence and the Sacred and The Scapegoat, recently elected among the forty "immortals" of the Academie francaise, Rene Girard is, along with Claude Levi-Strauss, our greatest living anthropologist. In this interview with Il Foglio, Girard returns to that which defines "the great anthropological question of our time." He himself opens with a question:
