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Evolution of Desire
What should I ask Cynthia Haven? (2022-04-17)

She is Rene Girard’s biographer , and has other interesting books as well, including on Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, and she is an expert in poetry and the humanities more broadly.  Here is one biography (how can she not have her own Wikipedia page?).  Here is her blog .  Here is Cynthia on Twitter .  To her credit, she has done all this without the benefit of a formal, tenured university post.  She also runs her own “conversations,” and is working further on Girard.  So what should I ask ...

*The Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard* (2018-03-15)

That is the new book by Cynthia L. Haven , which I was very enthusiastic about.  I find about half of it to be a revelation, and the other half to be perfectly fine, though material I largely had seen before (but still useful to most readers).  Here are a few of the things I learned:

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