When did René Girard pass away?
November 4, 2015
December 25, 2015
January 1, 2016
He is still alive
Answer
René Girard passed away on November 4, 2015, at the age of 91. He was a French-American literary critic, philosopher, and cultural anthropologist. His work focused on the nature of human violence, which he saw as rooted in mimetic desire. He argued that humans are fundamentally imitative creatures, and that our desire for what others have leads us to compete with and even destroy each other.
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