Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
by René Girard
Recommended by Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Philosophy, Psychology, and History.
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiv...
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