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There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural symbol. The above-ground tomb does not have to be invented. It is the pile of stones in which the victim of the unanimous stoning is buried. It is the first pyramid.

René Girard

René Girard

René Girard

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Born: December 25, 1923

Died: November 4, 2015 (aged 91)

Bio: René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.

Known for:

Violence and the Sacred (1972)
Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1961)
The Girard reader (1996)
The Scapegoat (1982)

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