르네 지라르

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르네 지라르(프랑스어: René Girard, 1923년 12월 25일 아비뇽 – 2015년 11월 4일 캘리포니아 스탠퍼드)는 프랑스의 인류학자, 사학자, 철학자이다.

René Noël Théophile Girard was a French academic best known for developing mimetic theory, which posits that human desire is fundamentally imitative, leading to rivalry, violence and the scapegoat mechanism as foundations of religion and culture. Holding academic appointments primarily in literature departments in the United States, his interdisciplinary work influenced fields ranging from theology to economics to psychology and cultural studies.