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Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture QUOTES

Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture QUOTES

1 " mechanism. In their slow evolutionary ascent, proto-humans ‘found’ in this mechanism a ‘tool’ for controlling the mimetic escalations of interspecific violence, when imitation (stronger in humans than in animals) diffuses dynamics of reciprocal contention and revenge in a given social group. "

― René Girard , Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

2 " We are ready to deconstruct anything except the idea that we are self-directed and that the persecutors are always the others. "

― René Girard , Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture