
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Theodicy - A Critical Theory of Capitalism
Gerard's Theodicy takes the bite out of critical theories by un-chaining these two movements. Marx himself described that he was not interested in making recipes for the cookshops of the future. Gerard would say, Marx, even if you are right about the pathologies within capitalism, you are mistaking the channel of these pathology for their root causes.
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