161: René Girard on What Makes Us Tick—Gil Bailie
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🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Despite teaching at prestigious universities, René Girard (1923—2015) was an outsider to the world of academe. The French philosopher and social critic began teaching literature because he needed a job. This venture set up his discovery of just how similar the various novels and classics were that he was lecturing on. He realized over time that, primarily, people want what other people want, a dynamic he called mimetic desire.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 161 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show just in time for the new year. |
| 0:08.0 | We're going to talk about the great French Catholic thinker Renee Gerard with one of his foremost interpreter, students, and collaborators, the founder of Cornerstone Forum, Mr. Gil Bailey. |
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| 0:38.6 | so our topic is the French Catholic philosopher Renee Gerard |
| 0:41.8 | his writings from the 50s onward provide unique insights into things |
| 0:45.8 | like Twitter mobs and bullying, trends, office politics, mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, that's the whole sweet spot here. |
| 0:56.3 | Get your nerd on. |
| 0:57.3 | We're going to talk about Renee Gerard with one of his foremost collaborators and proteges, Gil Bailey, who is here and will be shortly. Don't go away. |
| 1:07.0 | Warning. The following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview. |
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