girardians, man
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Replying to @marginsoftheo
It’s the most dogmatic academic cult I’ve ever encountered.
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Replying to @BookishBearBlog
It's bizarre. I think Girard is relevant and important, but some of his followers who make his anthropology the end-all be-all are pretty annoying.
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Replying to @marginsoftheo
I wonder how much his Christian triumphalism feeds that hunger for his followers
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Replying to @BookishBearBlog
Definitely, and that’s my biggest point of departure from him. I think scapegoating is a helpful concept, but Christianity isn’t the only meaningful source of ethics as a result for including it.
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Replying to @marginsoftheo
It’s helpful to draw on some of his forebears like Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke, and even Kierkegaard so you can see his thought as a confluence, instead of something thoroughly novel and self contained.
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I don’t think anyone’s claiming that, he is pretty obviously referencing many sources that you should explore for yourself. I’m not in academia but from my perspective it does need fought for because everyone hand waves it away as “annoying” and “too Christian”. Not in zeitgeist.
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