Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
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Girard's Talent as a Thinker
If you had to characterize or conceptualize Girard's talent as a thinker, how would you express that? He wasn't a details person, right? But what was his great talent? Intuition. The way he saw these patterns. And saw patterns that no one else did. Of competition, rivalry, violence, his big religious intuition was a New Testament is moving us from the kingdom of violence to the kingdom of God, what that meant to make that transition.
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