Contagion 25

IN THIS ISSUE
Editor's Note

Articles
Maria Stella Barberi, “'The enemy is the external form of our own question': Four Notes on the Mimetic Roots of Political Identities"

Matthew J. Packer, “'More American than America': Mimetic Theory and the East Asia–United States Rivalries"

Nathan W. O’Halloran, SJ, "The Pre-Human Biological and Cultural Transmission of the Effects of Originating Sin"

Ralph Hage, "Protecting Identity: Violence and Its Representations in France, 1815–1830"

Otto von Busch, "Mimesis, Clothed in Violence"

Hanna Mäkelä, "The Reception of René Girard’s Thought in Finland and Scandinavia: From the 1980s to the Present"

Michael S. Koppisch, "Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mimetic Desire in a Geopolitical Context"

Ángel J. Barahona Plaza, "Spain (1975/2017) from a Girardian Perspective"

Nidesh Lawtoo, "Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious (Part One): The Cathartic Hypothesis: Aristotle, Freud, Girard"

Giuseppe Fornari, "Ecstatico-Objectual Mediation: A New Approach to the Enigma of Human Culture"

Brian Harding, "Tauromachia as Counter-Sacrificial Ritual: Insights from Mimetic Theory"