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What is the role of violence in human culture? Should we talk about aggression to define violence? Is violence innate? French anthropologist and philosopher René Girard attempted to answer these fundamental questions during his talk in December 2007 at the ENS. Find his entire lecture in which he questions violence and the causes of its development in our universe. Published in 1972 under the name "Violence and the Sacred", René Girard's anthropological essay seeks to answer the following question: "How did archaic cultures protect themselves from mimetic rivalries?" He explains that violence and the sacred are intimately linked, in the name of a political necessity. According to René Girard, violence engenders the sacred while the sacred will want to imitate violence in order to preserve the social cohesion of the group. --------------------- ???? About René Girard: A former student of the École des Chartes and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University and Duke University in the United States, René Girard is a French philosopher, a member of the Académie française since 2005. He is the father of the "mimetic theory" which, based on the discovery of the mimetic character of desire, seeks to found a new anthropology of violence and religion. ???? Analysis: "L'infini Mathématique" - Louis Couturat • "L'infini Mathématique" - Dominique... ???? What is the role of violence in human culture? • René Girard: what is the role of ... ???? "Why music?" Interview with Francis Wolff • Why music? - Francis Wolff... Philosophy: find all our conferences in replay • Philosophy: MOOC, seminar & conf... --------------------- Welcome to the official ENS-PSL channel! ???? The École normale supérieure-PSL is a research-based school that links excellent research in both literature and science to training in the face of the scientific and social, national and international challenges of the contemporary world. It implements a world-class research and training policy, with a view to intellectual freedom and multidisciplinarity in literature and science. Personalized monitoring, a multiplicity of initiatives and commitments of normaliens in the social world, investment in the intellectual and scientific debates of its time are all characteristics of the École normale supérieure since its creation, and at the heart of PSL University of which it is a component institution. To not miss our latest videos, follow us on ????https://www.youtube.com/c/EnsFrEcole_... You can also find us on our website or our social networks: ???? Website: https://www.ens.psl.eu/ ???? Twitter: / ens_ulm ???? Facebook: / ecole.normale.superieure.ulm ???? LinkedIn: / ecolenormalesuperieure ???? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/normalesup/...