The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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What's the Triangular Desire?
In week two of the course, you go into rivalry, resentment and version. And one of the main readings there is this essay on triangular desire. So generally, it's a romantic triangle. This goes back to this idea that individualism can conceal imitation. But also, as you're bringing up, allows for some interesting kind of critiques, of the fetishization of innovation in that culture. Ye, you know, i think there's a really funny example of this, which is, everyone now likes to copy a tels,. You know, famous question about what is your most contrary in opinion?
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