![]() ![]() ![]() The René Girard Lectures honor the literary critic, anthropologist, religious thinker and Stanford Professor Emeritus René Girard by bringing bold minds to speak in Paris and Stanford, Girard's two intellectual homes. population has a fear of the number 13, and each year the even more specific fear of Friday the 13th. An advance review from Publishers Weekly predicts "readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." Researchers estimate that as many as 10 percent of the U.S. His newest work is a meditation on the Vedas entitled Ardor and will be published in English translation by Farrar, Straus and Giroux later this November. Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written" (Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India). Wendy Doniger, Calasso also wrote "the very best book about Lifetime" (The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony). Joseph Brodsky praised Calasso's retelling of the Greek myths as "the kind of book that comes out only once or twice in one's Philosophy and culture, ancient and modern, east and west. Why? And are we really less superstitious than our ancestors? Roberto Calasso will begin his provocative lecture with these questions.Ĭalled "a literary institution" by The Paris Review, Calasso is theĪuthor of a series of unique works that dazzlingly combine Only modern society is secular: it doesn't believe in anything but itself. Every society in historyĭefined itself in relation to an invisible world. ![]()
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