The Deadwether Society
Quoth the Financial Times’ How a little-known French literary critic became a bellwether for the US right: René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans. These are the headline and the subheading as seen in the latest issue of FT magazine. As a casual fan of Mr. Girard’s work I read the whole thing and it seems to be a fair description both of his major themes (mimetic desire, scapegoating) and of how they are being interpreted by the dramatis personae above.
