Cynthia Haven - René Girard at the End of Time

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2025 McDermott Lecturer Cynthia Haven is a prominent articulator of the work of René Girard, the French-born American historian, literary critic and philosopher whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. He is best known for his theory of mimetic desire. Haven wrote the award-winning Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard in 2018 and edited a Penguin Classics anthology of Girard’s writings, All Desire Is a Desire for Being, which was published earlier this year. She is also the author of 2021’s Czesław Miłosz: A California Life, about the Polish poet.

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