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René Girard, a Rare card
René Noël Théophile Girard was a French academic best known for developing mimetic theory, which posits that human desire is fundamentally imitative, leading to rivalry, violence and the scapegoat mechanism as foundations of religion and culture.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Power 154 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Holding academic appointments primarily in literature departments in the United States, his interdisciplinary work influenced fields ranging from theology to economics to psychology and cultural studies.
- Girard first outlined the foundations of mimetic theory in his debut book Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, a work of literary criticism, and extended it to anthropology in Violence and the Sacred.
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, considered his magnum opus, synthesized these ideas while applying them to a reinterpretation of Christian scriptures.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The René Girard article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, René Girard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vicq, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


