Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Mimetic Desire of Paolo and Francesca
Chapter 2. Camus's Stranger Retried
Chapter 3. The Underground Critic
Chapter 4. Strategies of Madness—Nietzsche, Wagner, and Dostoevski
Chapter 5. Delirium as System
Chapter 6. Perilous Balance: A Comic Hypothesis
Chapter 7. The Plague in Literature and Myth
Chapter 8. Differentiation and Reciprocity in Lévi-Strauss and Contemporary Theory
Chapter 9. Violence and Representation in the Mythical Text
Chapter 10. An Interview with René Girard

About the Author

René Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University. He is the author of Scapegoat, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, and Violence and the Sacred.

Reviews

Rene Girard is one of the most brilliant, bristly, and provocative of contemporary thinkers... Combative, impassioned and single-minded in purpose, he is an iconoclast who does not hesitate to cross swords with the likes of Freud, Levi-Strauss, Deleuze, and Lacan. -- Robert D. Cottrell PMLA