Episode · EconTalk · 2024-06-24
Russ Roberts & Cynthia Haven: books mentioned on EconTalk
René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)
If you're always imitating others or aspiring to be something else, what's left of the "authentic" you? According to the French philosopher René Girard, not much: Nothing can be truly authentic, he argued--everything comes from somewhere else.
Russ Roberts discussed Evolution of Desire by Cynthia L Haven, All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard, The Scapegoat by René Girard, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Evolution of Desire
Discussed“among other books she is the author of evolution of desire a life of Renee Gerard which was the first biography of the French theorist published in 2018”
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All Desire is a Desire for Being
Discussed“and she is the editor of Renee Gerard's all desire is a desire for being essential writings which was published in 2023”
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The Scapegoat
Discussed“you know and this last in his book the scapegoat his last sentence is we must forgive one another while there is still time if we wait too long there will not be time enough”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical novel that explores deep spiritual questions surrounding faith, free will, morality, and the human condition.
Discussed“do you know what Gerard thought of uh the grand Inquisitor in uh the brothers katof this idea that that the church had betrayed uh the teaching of Jesus”
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