Mimetic theory is based on the interdisciplinary work of René Girard, so this bibliography is organized into a section of texts by Girard followed by sections of texts developing mimetic theory in various disciplines. It is based on the bibliography on René Girard compiled by Wolfgang Palaver for Oxford Bibliographies Online (DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780190221911-0098), which covers works published through 2020.
This list is limited to books, both monographs and collections of articles. The COV&R Bulletin has published comprehensive “Bibliographies of the Literature on Mimetic Theory” since 1990. Most of the items that have been gathered in these bibliographies are incorporated into the fully searchable Index Theologicus database. This link will retrieve the items pertaining to mimetic theory, which can then be further filtered.
Contents
Biblical Revelation and Overviews
Literary Theory and Film Studies
Commemorative Publications and Collections
Books by René Girard
Though this section is subdivided according to mimetic theory’s three interconnected movements or theses (as indicated on the “What Is Mimetic Theory?” page), developed over different phases of Girard’s career, it’s important to note that the theory is cumulative. The works in the section on the scapegoat mechanism also treat mimetic desire, and the last section includes both works focused on the special relevance of biblical revelation and overviews of the entire theory.
Mimetic Desire
Girard, René. Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965. Translation of Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (Paris: B. Grasset, 1961). Girard’s first study of mimetic desire and rivalry finds their permutations mapped in the great novels of Cervantes, Flaubert, Stendhal, Proust, and Dostoevsky.
Girard, René. “To double business bound”: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Includes essays on Camus, Dante, Victor Hugo, Deleuze and Guattari, Nietzsche, Wagner, and Lévi-Strauss.
Girard, René. A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Girard’s only monograph written in English shows the essential elements of mimetic theory (mimetic desire, scapegoat mechanism, and the effects of biblical revelation) in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, with extended analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, and A Winter’s Tale.
Girard, René. Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005. Edited by Robert Doran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Essays in literary criticism spanning more than fifty years, from before Girard’s discovery of mimetic theory to later applications of it and theoretical statements. Bulletin review.
The Scapegoat Mechanism
Girard, René. Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Translation of La violence et le sacré (Paris: B. Grasset, 1972). Here Girard first proposed his theory of what is most often called the scapegoat mechanism through discussions of anthropology and Greek tragedy (the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Euripides’ The Bacchae), with special reference to the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and Sigmund Freud.
Girard, René. Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. This collection of essays shows Girard working out his theory of the scapegoat mechanism and the function of myth through interpreting the Oedipus story. The brief essay “The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph” gives a concise contrast between how myth conceals the scapegoat mechanism and how the Bible reveals it.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G., ed. Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. Girard’s contribution, “Generative Scapegoating,” is a definitive statement of this aspect of mimetic theory.
Girard, René. Sacrifice. Translated by Matthew Pattillo and David Dawson. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011. Translation of Le sacrifice (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003). In these lectures given at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Girard reflects on religious traditions in ancient India. He suggests that at the end of the Vedic period, particularly in the Vedānta, an awareness of the sacrificial mechanism begins to appear, though not as fully as in biblical texts. Bulletin review.
Biblical Revelation and Overviews
Girard, René. Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World: Research Undertaken in Collaboration with Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. Translation of Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde (Paris: B. Grasset, 1978). This dialogue with the psychiatrists Oughourlian and Lefort is Girard’s most comprehensive and far-reaching statement. Part 1 develops a theory of hominization based on the theses of mimetic desire and scapegoating. Part 2 gives an overview of Girard’s understanding of the importance of biblical revelation for subsequent history. Part 3 proposes a psychology of the “interdividual.”
Girard, René. The Scapegoat. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Translation of Le bouc émissaire (Paris: B. Grasset, 1982). In the first half, Girard explains his methodology of interpreting mythical texts in light of the scapegoat mechanism, beginning with a medieval persecution text for which historical knowledge provides confirmation of the method. The second half treats major examples of how the Christian Gospels bring mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism to light.
Girard, René. Job: The Victim of His People. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. Translation of La route antique des hommes pervers (Paris: B. Grasset, 1985). Breaking with traditional interpretations of the biblical book of Job, Girard argues that it shows Job to be the victim of his people, his supposed friends to be persecutors, and their god to be a projection of the community’s collective violence.
Girard, René. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. Translated by James G. Williams. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001. Translation of Je vois Satan tomber comme l’éclair (Paris: B. Grasset, 1999).
Girard, René. Wissenschaft und christlicher Glaube. Translated by Shivaun Heath. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. Girard’s lecture “Knowledge and the Christian Faith,” published here in English as well as in German translation, gives an outline of his understanding of Christian faith and how it is compatible with Darwinism.
Girard, René. Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre. Translated by Mary Baker. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010. Translation of Achever Clausewitz (Paris: Carnets nord, 2007). Girard’s last book follows further implications of the Bible’s exposure of sacred violence in the modern world. Bulletin review.
Girard, René. Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden: A Discussion with René Girard at Esprit (1973). Translated by Andrew J. McKenna. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. Bulletin review.
Girard, René. All Desire Is a Desire for Being. Essential Writings Selected by Cynthia L. Haven. Penguin Classics, 2023. Selections span the range of Girard’s career, concluding with “Maxims” gathered from his work and a chronology. Bulletin review.
Books by Other Authors
Introductions and Biographies
Cayley, David, and René Girard. The Ideas of René Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence. Toronto: David Cayley, 2019. This book is based on a series of podcasts.
Fleming, Chris. René Girard: Violence and Mimesis. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2004. Bulletin review.
Golsan, Richard J. René Girard and Myth: An Introduction. Theorists of Myth 7. New York: Garland, 1993. Bulletin review.
Haven, Cynthia L. Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Bulletin review.
Kirwan, Michael. Discovering Girard. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2004.
Palaver, Wolfgang. René Girard’s Mimetic Theory. Translated by Gabriel Borrud. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Ramond, Charles. Le vocabulaire de René Girard. 2d ed. Vocabulaire de . . . Paris: Ellipses, 2009.
Warren, James. Compassion or Apocalypse? A Comprehensible Guide to the Thought of René Girard. Lanham, MD: John Hunt, 2013.
Williams, James G., ed. The Girard Reader. New York: Crossroad, 1996. Selections from Girard’s books and articles representing the full scope of mimetic theory, with introductions and glossary.
Literary Theory and Film Studies
Alberg, Jeremiah. Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Anspach, Mark R., ed. The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, with a new translation of Oedipus Tyrannus, by Wm. Blake Tyrrell. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 2020. Bulletin review.
Antonello, Pierpaolo, and Heather Webb, eds. Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Bandera, Cesáreo. A Refuge of Lies: Reflections on Faith and Fiction. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Bandera, Cesáreo. The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
Bandera, Cesáreo. The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Bulletin review.
Bubbio, Paolo Diego, and Chris Fleming, eds. Mimetic Theory and Film. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Bulletin review.
Cowdell, Scott, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge, eds. Mimesis, Movies, and Media. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Bulletin review.
Distefano, Matthew J. Mimetic Theory and Middle-Earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium. Chico: Quior, 2024. Bulletin review. Mythlore review.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. Desire: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020. Bulletin review.
Humbert, David. Violence in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock: A Study in Mimesis. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Bulletin review.
Johnsen, William A. Violence and Modernism: Ibsen, Joyce, and Woolf. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Bulletin review.
McKenna, Andrew J. Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Review.
Merrill, Trevor Cribben. The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with René Girard. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Carly Osborn, Tragic Novels, René Girard, and the American Dream: Sacrifice in Suburbia. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Bulletin review.
Rocha, João Cezar de Castro. Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation. Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Ward, Bernadette Waterman. Eliot’s Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Bulletin review.
Webb, Heather. Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Bulletin review.
Wierschem, Marcus. Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2024. Bulletin review.
Wilson, Jessica Hooten. Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Cascade Books, 2017. Bulletin review.
Religious Studies
Alison, James, and Wolfgang Palaver, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. New York: Palgrave, 2017. Bulletin review: parts I-II, parts III-IV, parts V-VII.
Dawson, David. Flesh Becomes Word: A Lexicography of the Scapegoat or, the History of an Idea. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Palaver, Wolfgang. Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Bulletin review.
Serres, Michel. Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together. Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Bulletin review.
Biblical Studies
Alison, James. Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination. New York: Crossroad, 1996.
Bartlett, Anthony W. Seven Stories: How to Study and Teach the Nonviolent Bible, Hopetime Press, 2017. Bulletin review.
Bartlett, Anthony. Signs of Change: The Bible’s Evolution of Divine Nonviolence. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2021. Bulletin review.
Chantre, Benoît. The Time Has Grown Short: René Girard, or the Last Law. Translated by Trever Cribben Merrill. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2022. Bulletin review.
Finamore, Stephen. God, Order and Chaos: René Girard and the Apocalypse. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. Sacred Violence: Paul’s Hermeneutic of the Cross. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.
London, Daniel DeForest. Theodicy and Spirituality in the Fourth Gospel: A Girardian Perspective. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic. 2020. Bulletin review.
Schwager, Raymund. Must There Be Scapegoats? Violence and Redemption in the Bible. Translated by Maria L. Assad. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
Swartley, Willard M., ed. Violence Renounced: René Girard, Biblical Studies and Peacemaking. Studies in Peace and Scripture 4. Telford, PA: Pandora Press, 2000.
Williams, James G. The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of Sanctioned Violence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Christian Theology
Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998.
Alison, James. Faith beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2001.
Bartlett, Anthony W. Cross Purposes: The Violent Grammar of Christian Atonement. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001. Bulletin review.
Cowdell, Scott. Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2023. Bulletin review.
Cowdell, Scott. René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Cowdell, Scott. René Girard and the Nonviolent God. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. Bulletin review.
Heim, S. Mark. Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2006. Bulletin review.
Kaplan, Grant. René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Bulletin review.
King, Chelsea Jordan. Reclaiming Sacrifice: Integrating Girardian and Feminist Insights on the Cross. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Bulletin review.
Kirwan, Michael. Girard and Theology. Philosophy and Theology. London: T & T Clark, 2009. Bulletin review.
Kirwan, Michael, and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, eds. Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 5. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Bulletin review.
Andrew Marr, OSB, Moving and Resting in God’s Desire: A Spirituality of Peace. Three Rivers, MI: St. Gregory’s Abbey Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Robinette, Brian D. The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Bulletin review.
Schwager, Raymund. Jesus in the Drama of Salvation: Toward a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption. Translated by James G. Williams and Paul Haddon. New York: Crossroad, 1999.
Sacrifice
Daly, Robert J. Sacrifice Unveiled: The True Meaning of Christian Sacrifice. London: T & T Clark, 2009.
Pally, Marcia, ed. Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory across the Disciplines. Edited by Marcia Pally. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 9. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Bulletin review.
Reineke, Martha J. Sacrificed Lives: Kristeva on Women and Violence. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. [ISBN: 9780253332998] [class:book]
World Religions
Astell, Ann W., and Sandor Goodhart, eds. Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Bulletin review.
Collins, Brian. The Head beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014.
Goodhart, Sandor. The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014. Bulletin review.
Kirwan, Michael, and Ahmad Achtar, eds. Mimetic Theory and Islam: “The Wound Where Light Enters.” New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Bulletin review.
Palaver, Wolfgang, and Richard Schenk, eds. Mimetic Theory and World Religions. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Bulletin review.
Violence and Peace
Bailie, Gil. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads. New York: Crossroad, 1995. Bulletin review.
Bellinger, Charles K. The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hodge, Joel. Violence in the Name of God: the Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity. Violence, Desire and the Sacred. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Bulletin review.
Hodge, Joel, Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Carly Osborn, eds. Does Religion Cause Violence? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 7. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Bulletin review.
Juergensmeyer, Mark, ed. Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World. London: Frank Cass, 1992.
Redekop, Vern Neufeld. From Violence to Blessing: How an Understanding of Deep-Rooted Conflict can Lead to Paths of Reconciliation. Ottawa, Canada: Novalis, 2002.
Redekop, Vern Neufeld, and Thomas Ryba, eds. René Girard and Creative Mimesis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
Redekop, Vern Neufeld, and Thomas Ryba, eds. René Girard and Creative Reconciliation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
Wallace, Mark, and Thee Smith, eds. Curing Violence. Sonoma, CA: Polebridge Press, 1994.
Anthropology
Anspach, Mark Rogin. Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Bulletin review.
Antonello, Pierpaolo, and Paul Gifford, eds. How We Became Human: Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Gans, Eric. The Girardian Origins of Generative Anthropology. San Francisco: Imitatio, 2012.
Hodder, Ian, ed. Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Bulletin review.
Simonse, Simon. Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Bulletin review.
Philosophy
Alberg, Jeremiah. A Reinterpretation of Rousseau: A Religious System. Foreword by René Girard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Duane Armitage. Philosophy’s Violent Sacred: Heidegger and Nietzsche through Mimetic Theory. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Michigan State University Press, 2021. Bulletin review.
Bandera, Pablo. Reflection in the Waves: The Interdividual Observer in a Quantum Mechanical World. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2019. Bulletin review.
Bartlett, Anthony. Theology Beyond Metaphysics: Transformative Semiotics of René Girard. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020. Bulletin review.
Bubbio, Paolo Diego. Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Bulletin review.
Fornari, Giuseppe. A God Torn to Pieces: The Nietzsche Case. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Gardner, Stephen L. Myths of Freedom: Equality, Modern Thought, and Philosophical Radicalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Ranieri, John J. Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. Bulletin review.
Stefano Tomelleri, Ressentiment: Reflections on Mimetic Desire and Society. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Wilmes, Andreas, and George A. Dunn, eds. René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2024. Bulletin review.
Psychology
Garrels, Scott R., ed. Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011. Bulletin review.
Livingston, Paisley. Models of Desire: René Girard and the Psychology of Mimesis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. Alterity. Translated by Andrew J. McKenna. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2023. Bulletin review.
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. The Genesis of Desire. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010. Bulletin review.
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. The Mimetic Brain. Translated by Trevor Cribben Merrill. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Bulletin review.
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. The Puppet of Desire: The Psychology of Hysteria, Possession, and Hypnosis. Translated by Eugene Webb. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Reineke, Martha J. Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014. Bulletin review.
Webb, Eugene. The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. Bulletin review.
Economic and Political Theory
Cerella, Antonio, and Elisabetta Brighi, eds. The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Dumouchel, Paul. The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013. Bulletin review.
Dumouchel, Paul. The Barren Sacrifice: An Essay on Political Violence. Translated by Mary Baker. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. The Mark of the Sacred. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. Economy and the Future: A Crisis of Faith. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014. Bulletin review.
Farneti, Roberto. Mimetic Politics: Dyadic Patterns in Global Politics. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. Bulletin review.
Haw, Chris. Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Bulletin review.
Orléan, André. The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. The MIT Press, 2023. Bulletin review.
Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. Psychopolitics: Conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2012. Bulletin review.
Palaver, Wolfgang, and Petra Steinmair-Pösel, eds. Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media: In Discussion with Christian Theology. Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 17. Vienna: LIT, 2005. Bulletin review.
Troy, Jodok. Desire and Imitation in International Politics. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. Bulletin review.
Commemorative Publications and Collections
Anspach, Mark R., ed. René Girard. Cahiers de l’Herne 89. Paris: L’Herne, 2008. Bulletin review.
Astell, Ann, and J. A. Jackson, eds. Special Issue: “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel” Fifty Years Later—The Religious Dimension. Religion and Literature 43.3 (2011): 135–208.
Brighi, Elisabetta, and Antonio Cerella, eds. Special Issue: Mimetic Theory and International Studies. Journal of International Political Theory 11.1 (2015).
Dumouchel, Paul, ed. Violence and Truth: On the Work of René Girard. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Goodhart, Sandor, Jørgen Jørgensen, Tom Ryba, and James G. Williams, eds. For René Girard: Essays in Friendship and in Truth. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009. Includes Michel Serres’s important address, “Receiving René Girard into the Académie Française.”
Guggenberger, Wilhelm, and Wolfgang Palaver, eds. Special Issue: René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and Its Contribution to the Study of Religion and Violence. Journal of Religion and Violence 1.2 (2013).
Harari, Josué V., ed. Special Issue: The Work of René Girard. Diacritics 8.1 (1978).
Juilland, Alphonse, ed. To Honor René Girard: Presented on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday by Colleagues, Students, and Friends. Stanford French and Italian Studies 34. Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1986.
McKenna, Andrew, ed. Special Issue: René Girard and Biblical Studies. Semeia 33 (1985).