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PHILOSOPHER

René Girard

1923 - 2015

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René Noël Théophile Girard (; French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Girard has received more than 1,556,874 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). René Girard is the 354th most popular philosopher (up from 374th in 2019), the 1,002nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,067th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Philosopher.

René Girard is most famous for his theory of mimetic desire. This theory states that all human desires are imitations of desires that we see in others.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, René Girard ranks 354 out of 1,081. Before him are Daniel Dennett, Judith Butler, J. L. Austin, Pompeia Plotina, Wilhelm Windelband, and Euclid of Megara. After him are Nachmanides, Uriel da Costa, Macrobius, Alexandre Kojève, Mulla Sadra, and Ronald Dworkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, René Girard ranks 35. Before him are Lee Teng-hui, Markus Wolf, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Antoni Tàpies, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, and Frederick Herzberg. After him are Mauno Koivisto, Diane Arbus, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Morris, Alice Miller, and Cliff Robertson. Among people deceased in 2015, René Girard ranks 48. Before him are Benedict Anderson, Zito, Alcides Ghiggia, Faten Hamama, Pierre Brice, and James Horner. After him are Michele Ferrero, Fatema Mernissi, Ben E. King, Frei Otto, Marshall Rosenberg, and Francesco Rosi.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Girard ranks 1,002 out of 6,011. Before him are Princess Clémentine of Orléans (1817), Annie Ernaux (1940), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Jean Rochefort (1930), Claude Cahun (1894), and Robert I, Count of Artois (1216). After him are Antoine Galland (1646), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Lucien Laurent (1907), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), and Claude of France (1547).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, René Girard ranks 48. Before him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Bruno Latour (1947), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Edgar Morin (1921). After him are Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Jean Gerson (1363), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), and Étienne Cabet (1788).

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