TO HONOR

RENE GIRARD
Presented on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
by colleagues, students, friends

1986
ANMA LIBRI
 Contents

Preface: The Achievement of Rene Girard i

Bibliography iii
VIRGIL NEMOIANU
Rene Girard and the Dialectics of Imperfection 1
AIDAN CARL MATHEWS
Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Work
of Rene Girard 17
CESAREO BANDERA
From Mythical Bees to Medieval Antisemitism 29
ERIC GANS
Sacred Text in Secular Culture 51
CLAUDE VIGEE
Le Parfum d'Isaac 65
SANDOR GOODHART
"I am Joseph": Rene Girard and the Prophetic Law 85
BERNARD CAZES
Fragile Desacralisation 113
ANDRE ORLEAN o
La Theorie mimetique face aux phenomenes
economiques 121
JEAN-PIERRE DUPUY
John Rawls et la question du sacrifice 135
PAUL DUMOUCHEL
Hobbes: La Course a la Souverainete 153
KONRAD THOMAS
On Law, Religion, and Custom 177
PHILIPPE SOLLERS
Is God Dead? "The Purloined Letter" of the Gospel 191
CHRISTIANE FREMONT
De la croyance et du savoir 197
TOBIN SIEBERS
Language, Violence, and the Sacred: A Polemical
Survey of Critical Theories 203
PAISLEY LIVINGSTON
Girard and Literary Knowledge 221
PHILIPPE MURAY
L'Affaire Satan 237
BRIGITTE CAZELLES
Le Cercle maudit 259
MICHAEL S. KOPPISCH
"Bonne Soupe" or "Beau Langage": Difference and
Sameness in Les Femmes savantes 281
BRUCE BASSOFF
The Model as Obstacle: Kafka's The Trial 299
PIERRE SAINT-AMAND
Valery: Pirouettes 317
Postface: The Influence of Rene Girard 329