This simply isn't true. Girard discusses mythologies from a wide range of cultures in his work, and offers commentary on everything from Buddhism to the Aztecs. A lot of his work was inspired, at an early stage, by structuralists, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss's studies of Brazilian myth systems, and he's very interested in aboriginal soci…
This simply isn't true. Girard discusses mythologies from a wide range of cultures in his work, and offers commentary on everything from Buddhism to the Aztecs. A lot of his work was inspired, at an early stage, by structuralists, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss's studies of Brazilian myth systems, and he's very interested in aboriginal societies. He would definitively reject any charge that his research or views were limited to Western civilization.
Ok. Given that range of Girard's study, what did he say was the cause of mimetic desire? Is it a human universal, like music, or a thought trap, like hierarchical social organization?
This simply isn't true. Girard discusses mythologies from a wide range of cultures in his work, and offers commentary on everything from Buddhism to the Aztecs. A lot of his work was inspired, at an early stage, by structuralists, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss's studies of Brazilian myth systems, and he's very interested in aboriginal societies. He would definitively reject any charge that his research or views were limited to Western civilization.
Ok. Given that range of Girard's study, what did he say was the cause of mimetic desire? Is it a human universal, like music, or a thought trap, like hierarchical social organization?