René Girard, The Scapegoat: Special Guest: Daniel Druhora

„Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Rene Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed „l’hypothese girardienne,” have sparked interdisciplinary, even international, controversy. In The Scapegoat, Girard applies his approach to „texts of persecution,” documents that recount phenomena of collective violence from the standpoint of the persecutor-documents such as the medieval poet Guillaume de Machaut’s Judgement of the King of Navarre, which blames the Jews for the Black Death and describes their mass murder. Girard compares persecution texts with myths, most notably with the myth of Oedipus, and finds strikingly similar themes and structures.”