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Contagion 27
edited by William A. Johnsen
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2020
Paper: 978-1-68430-109-6

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In This Issue


William A. Johnsen, From the Editor


Paul Dumouchel, "After-Truth"


Duncan John Morrow, "No End of (Mimetic) Crises? Reflections on Mimetic Escalation, Order, and the Nature of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Brexit"


Wiel Eggen, "A Monadic Prelate without Divine Rival: On Girard’s Bifurcated Focus"


D. Vincent Riordan, "The Stones That the Builders Rejected: The Scapegoat Mechanism and Evolutionary Psychiatry"


Stéphanie Hage, "Joyous Sacrifice: On the Scapegoat as Voluntary Victim in 'Song of Myself' and 'Howl'"


Paul L. Lynch, "Recovering Rhetoric: René Girard as Theorhetor"


Ralph Hage, "Necessary Victims: William Shakespeare’s Tragic Ethics of Identity"


Norrec Nieh, “'Approved Flesh': The Sacrificial Foundations of Modernity in Peter Shaffer’s Equus"


Jordan Joseph Wale, "The Satanic and the Theomimetic: Differentiating 'Sacrifice' in René Girard and Gregory the Great"


Ryan Gerard Duns, "Desire and Conversion in The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

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