EPISODE · Feb 13, 2021 · 1H 19M
THINGS HIDDEN 27: How Rene Girard Explains Our Chaotic Times
from David Gornoski · host David Gornoski
David Gornoski is joined by University of Scranton professor Duane Armitage, author of Big Ideas for Little Philosophers. David and Duane Armitage talk about the work of Rene Girard and apply Mimetic insights to the religiosity of political correctness, the growing undifferentiation in Western society, victim narratives as a pretext for starting wars, the effects of decentralizing media and information, the destruction of science in our victim-concerned world, inequality in nature, white-supremacy in postmodern ideology, and more. Order Duane Armitage's "Big Ideas for Little Philosophers" series here. Watch more episodes of David Gornoski's THINGS HIDDEN on aneighborschoice.com
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THINGS HIDDEN 27: How Rene Girard Explains Our Chaotic Times
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