Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
René Girard
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)