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Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Relationship Between Money and Gift-Giving for Drog

Gift-giving used to be done with temporal gaps in between objects of differing value. Modernian capitalism takes away this second quality of gift-giving, writes Drog. Money then is to exchange what law is to human relationships, he says.

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