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The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger

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Christianity and Nica's Criticism of the Antichrist

In week six, you go into basically contrasting gerard with nicha and freud. And maybe one interesting way to open up this discussion is based on what you re just saying. There's a quite natural question one might have, which is that christianity looms large in nica's genealogy of morals. In a lot of ways, it seems like nicha actually quite respects jesus in some ways. You know, i've argued that christ is kind of like an ubermench figure, christ himself.

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