I have issued the inaugural post at the renewal of Theoria-press. https://theoriapress.substack.com/p/theoria-and-theory I would like to welcome all readers—under this first New Moon of Spring—to the inauguration of this journey. This journey is, in many ways, a continuation of the path that was traversed at the WordPress site. But this also represents a new beginning. In…
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Mythos, Logos, and the Lamb of God: René Girard on the Scapegoat Mechanism
Introduction On another occasion, I employed Hesiod’s contradictory characterizations of Saturn in the Theogony and Works and Days to inquire into the seeming paradox of a filicidal tyrant simultaneously ruling over the fabled Golden Age of the world. Hesiod’s account served as a representative of the concurrent narratives of decadence and progress that often confront…