René Girard's Mimetic Theory of Culture

Abstract

The paper is aimed at Mimetic Theory of Culture of René Girard, the prominent French anthropologist, essayist and scientist. The matter of mimetic mechanism in culture is here taken as the key topic. That’s why the author decided to give it a closer look, foremost in terms of anthropological meanings. Girard reads Christianity as anthropology. His approach is strictly methodological-anthropological, in this case the Christianity is critically conceived as a critical theory of culture sui generis.