The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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The Gerard Essay on Innovation and Repetition
i wonder if we could pause on that for a moment. One thing i noticed about the first week is that one of the required readings is this gerard article on innovation and repetition. It's partly an ssay that's a kind of a conceptual history and almost etymological history of this term innovation. And u kno, he um, he goes into the way that it's a term that originally was used with extremely negative valances. So in other words, it was regarded as highly, as highly suspicious if you were an innovator, right?
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