Philosopher and Literary Critic

Rene Girard

1 article 2002

René Girard was a French-American literary critic, philosopher, and anthropologist renowned for his theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating. A longtime professor at Stanford University and member of the Académie française, he was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. He contributed a piece on Dostoevsky to The Weekly Standard in 2002.

Dostoevsky's Demons

May 20, 2002 · René Girard, Magazine, Books and Arts

Dostoevsky The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank Princeton University Press, 812 pp., $35 FOR MORE THAN twenty-five years, Joseph Frank has been writing the biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 1976, he published "Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849," followed by "The Years of Ordeal,…