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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Reason in Science Gains Such Immensity

Gerard is worried that political agendas are wrapping themselves up in a veneer of science to be equally unquestionable. Gerard's worry is that science isn't independent from narratives and fashions, and thus is also susceptible to mimises. It's not as objective as we think it to be. The fact that the literal deities of your are trying to cozy up to science is perhaps part of this divinization of science," he says.

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