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Listening to voices…from proximity to podcasts
For most of human history the only way one person could hear another person’s voice was to be within what was called ‘earshot’ of them. You had to be in close enough proximity to them to hear them. One can … Continue reading
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Tagged Audible, Audio Archives, Compact Disc, Gil Bailie, internet, podcast, radio, René Girard
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Mimetic Tangles
“If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid and tyrannical the social order will appear to us, even if, in reality, it is collapsing. To revolutionists of the … Continue reading
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Tagged mimetic theory, oppression, René Girard, repression, revolutionary, society
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Episode 3: Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort
It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. Fr. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Recorded in August 2009 at … Continue reading
Posted in Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground
Tagged George Niederaurer, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Michael Polanyi, René Girard, sacramentality
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Episode 2: 2000 years and no new god
A presentation by Gil Bailie recorded in 2003 at the College of the Holy Cross – “The Anatomy of Evil” conference . https://storage.cornerstone-forum.org/KFBG_02_2KYrsNNG_podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:32 — 22.9MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, mimetic theory, Nietzsche, René Girard, society, violence
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Episode 2: Introduction to Mimetic Theory
This is a recording of a presentation by René Girard at the 2002 meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion held at Purdue University. https://storage.cornerstone-forum.org/VS-02_IntroMT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:21 — 30.6MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts … Continue reading
Posted in Violence & The Sacred
Tagged Colloquium on Violence & Religion, COV&R, mimetic theory, Purdue University, René Girard
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Episode 1: Friday Afternoon Stanford Seminar with René Girard – 2006
This recording was made in 2006 during one of the informal Friday afternoon seminars which professor René Girard and those interested in his work had been convening since the late 1980’s. The seminars were generally held every two weeks when … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, mimetic theory, René Girard
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Turning Ourselves into Gifts
“The modern world insidiously brings back forms of self-enslavement from which Western society had largely escaped during the Christian centuries.” – René Girard “Our gratitude for the gift of ourselves must tend toward fashioning our whole … Continue reading
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Tagged gift, Hans Urs von Balthasar, modernity, René Girard, slavery
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Gil Bailie Interviewed on The Patrick Coffin Show
Recently Patrick Coffin released on YouTube and his website an interview with Gil Bailie recorded in the Fall of 2019. For those who know and follow our work the 80 minute interview offers a kind of primer as Patrick … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, mimetic theory, Patrick Coffin, René Girard
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A Girard Christmas Card
This excerpt from the Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge series in which Peter Robinson interviews René Girard was recorded in 2010. We make it available at this time of year in celebration of the Christmas feast which also coincides with the … Continue reading
Remembering René Girard
René Girard passed from this life four years ago, leaving behind both an intellectual legacy and a wonderful example of a well-lived life. He changed my life in so many ways, for which I am deeply grateful. For those who … Continue reading
