Name: Lucas Coelho's review of I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
Item: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Rating: 5
Author: Lucas Coelho

René Girard

The author of Violence and the Sacred looks at the gospels as a map of human behavior and sees striking parallels with modern human behavior. Original.

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Merna

Lucas Coelho

For some reason I got obsessed with Girard. His anthropological analysis of the world through the lenses of mimetic desire is brilliant. His works are hard to digest, so I would recommend making notes on how he defines a few concepts across this and his other works, he even does this at the start of the book so don’t skip it or read it in a rush otherwise the rest of the book will not make any sense to you. 

And I believe he is correct when he speaks about the return of the scapegoat mechanism, we are already seeing it, and it’s a reason to keep you from sleep. 

Great thinker, great book.

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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard

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