Harmony Without Sameness: The Five Relationships as Mimetic Architecture
Confucius lived inside the problem this essay addresses. The late Zhou order was dissolving in what the tradition itself named liyue benghuai — the collapse of
The Mimetic Ego: How Ambition Borrows Its Objects — and When Borrowed Desire Turns to Conflict
René Girard’s central claim is that desire is not a straight line running from a subject to an object but a triangle: we learn what to want by watching what oth
The Last Freier of Milpitas
Ronen Bar-Lev's mother calls every Sunday at 8 a.m., which is 6 p.m. in Haifa [4, 5], and every Sunday she asks the same question: Nu, are they still walking al