Articles By: Eric Gans

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• No. 820, The Abrahamic World: Three Reflections
• No. 819, Celebrity and Resentment
• No. 818, GA as Humanist Anthropology
• No. 817, The Secular Sacred and the Epistemology of Resentment
• No. 816, Science and Faith: Anthropology of the Sacred
• No. 815, From the agora to the poêle: Descartes’ Cogito and Modern Thought
• No. 814, Why this is a good time for the minimal hypothesis of the origin of language**
• No. 813, The end of history and the beginning of…
• No. 812, The Rubicon
• No. 811, Nothingness and the Scene of Representation: East and West
• No. 810, Jewish Trump?
• No. 809, God and Language, Love and Resentment
• No. 808, Generative Anthropology’s Overcoming of Metaphysics
• No. 807, Antisemitism, or the Denial of Nothingness
• No. 806, GA and Western/Eastern civilization – Part II: Nishida, Sartre, and Nothingness
• No. 805, The Paradox of Antisemitism
• No. 804, Wokeness and The Epistemology of Resentment
• No. 803, Bear Theory IV
• No. 802, GA and Western/Eastern civilization – Part I
• Benchmarks
• Peter Goldman - Fate vs. Election in Shakespearean Drama: The Example of ‘Coriolanus’
• Kiyoshi Kawahara - “Ordinariness of Spirituality”: An Anthropology of Personal Integration from a Perspective of Japanese Buddhist Philosophy
• Andrew McKenna - Joseph Conrad’s “An Outpost of Progress”: History and the Epistemics of Fiction
• Matthew Schneider - These bloody flowers: The Aesthetics of Resentment in Multicultural Literature
• Matthew Taylor - How John Lennon’s “No Religion” Instantiates Religion: A Symbolic Analysis a la the Brothers Pageau
• No. 801, Benoît Chantre’s “René Girard: Biographie” (Grasset, 2023) – Part II
• No. 800, Benoît Chantre’s “René Girard: Biographie” (Grasset, 2023) – Part I
• No. 799, The Evolutionary Emergence of the Human
• No. 798, Delphine Horvilleur’s ‘Anti-Semitism Revisited’
• No. 797, The human as paradox and taboo
• No. 796, The uniqueness of human language
• No. 795, Anarcho-Tyranny, Thirty Years Later
• No. 794, Community and sacrality: a proposal
• No. 793, The scene of culture and consciousness III: The Fall of Man
• No. 792, The scene of culture and consciousness II
• No. 791, The scene of culture and consciousness I
• No. 790, Threats to civilization?
• No. 789, New antisemitism for old: Western oikophobia returns to its root
• No. 788, Why Generative Anthropology? In defense of speculative thinking
• No. 787, Inexcusable, but…
• No. 786, Submission, the End of History?
• Benchmarks
• Andrew Bartlett - Differing over Originary Violence: Between Girard and Gans
• Izumi Dryden - The Sound of Metaphysical “Being”: Ontological Dichotomy in the Works of Musico-Philosophical Writers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anthony Burgess
• No. 785, Hamas’ Watershed Pogrom
• Robert Rois - Ransom for Desire in the Iliad: Hector and Patroclus
• Pierre Whalon - The World Mediated by Meaning Will Always Evoke the Sacred
• No. 784, The Ambivalent Long March from the New Left to DEI
• No. 783, Melody and Community in the Screenic Age: The Smartphone, and Two Blondes
• No. 782, Deus sive natura
• No. 781, The 2024 Election
• No. 780, On Providence
• No. 779, Qui perd gagne: Antisemitism and the Victimary
• No. 778, Giorgio Agamben’s “What is Philosophy?”
• No. 777, Memes and Anti-Memes
• No. 776, GA’s Act of Faith
• No. 775, La Différance: The Sacred, the Scene, and the Sign
• No. 774, David P. Goldman on Jewish Wisdom vs Greek Science
• No. 773, GA: The 21st Century
• No. 772, The Scene and the Obscene: The Generative Way of Thinking
• No. 771, Origins of GA II: The End of Culture?
• No. 770, Origins of Generative Anthropology
• Benchmarks
• Andrew Bartlett - Expression, “Representation,” and Animal Mind
• Ian Dennis - Review of Richard van Oort’s “Shakespeare’s Mad Men: A Crisis of Authority” (Stanford, 2023)
• No. 769, Prolegomenon to an intellectual autobiography
• Peter Goldman - Staging the Emergence of Metadrama in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
• Adam Katz and Zack Baker - There Is No Economy but Only the Debt to the Center: Money, Capital and the Tributary
• No. 768, Religion and Originary Thinking
• No. 767, The Existentialist Roots of GA
• No. 766, Thomas Bertonneau, Outsider
• No. 765, The Soul in the Prison House of Language
• No. 764, GA and AI
• No. 763, The Epistemology of Resentment
• No. 762, Religion at the Beginning and End of History
• No. 761, Two Post-Novels: Michel Houellebecq’s Anéantir and Annie Ernaux’s Une femme
• No. 760, GA and the Return of Narrative Anthropology
• No. 759, GA and Transcendental Religion
• No. 758, Immanentism, Transcendentalism, and the Originary Hypothesis
• No. 757, Illiberal Education, 31 Years Later
• No. 756, Some Topical Reflections
• No. 755, Back to Basics
• Benchmarks
• No. 754, The End of History, Revisited
• Benjamin Barber - Capricious Metaphysics contra Polarization: Lev Shestov’s Creative Anthropology
• Chris Fleming - The Human as a Danger to Itself: Murder in the 180th Degree
• Adam Katz - Review of Magdalena Zlocka-Dabrowska’s Generative Anthropology in Contexts and Texts
• No. 753, GA and Religion: Hypothesis and Revelation
• No. 752, Daniel Boorstin’s The Image: Modernity and the Loss of the Sacred
• No. 751, GA, in a Word
• No. 750, Queen Elizabeth II, RIP
• No. 749, GA and Western Culture’s “Soft Taboos”
• No. 748, More on Wokeness and the “End of History”
• No. 747, Wokism and the “End of History”
• No. 746, Generative Anthropology and Human Nature
• No. 745, The Human Event
• No. 744, The 2022 GA Summer Conference
• No. 743, The Creation
• No. 742, The Shared Ontology of Religion and GA
• No. 741, A Memorial Day Defense of Firstness
• No. 740, Our Originary Imagination
• No. 739, Originary phenomenology, naïve and hypothetical
• No. 738, What Is an Event?
• No. 737, Science and Faith, Revisited
• Benchmarks
• Martin Fashbaugh - Gabriel’s Epiphany and the End of Resentment: Religious Feeling in James Joyce’s The Dead
• Peter Goldman - Mimesis in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• No. 736, The Originary Phenomenology of Sacred Incarnation
• Marina Ludwigs - Retrieving the Paradox: Freud’s Death Drive and the Originary Concept of Deferral
• No. 735, Firstness, Resentment, and the West
• No. 734, Paradox and the Future of Judeo-Christianity
• No. 733, Esthetic Paradox
• No. 732, The Epistemology of Resentment, Revisited
• No. 731, Sacred and Significant – Part II
• No. 730, Sacred and Significant – Part I
• No. 729, Dara Horn and Loving Dead Jews
• No. 728, Antisemitism, Scapegoating, Christianity, and Judaism
• No. 727, “The Dawn of Everything”—Getting Unstuck
• No. 726, Versions of the Sacred
• No. 725, “Like God in the universe”
• No. 724, The Sacred/Significant
• No. 723, Firstness and the Sacred
• No. 722, The Abrahamic Trinity
• No. 721, Generative Anthropology and the Sacred
• No. 720, Liberal Democracy
• No. 719, Morality and Ethics
• No. 718, The Jewish Question Part II
• No. 717, The Jewish Question: Part I
• Matthew Schneider - In Memoriam Thomas F. Bertonneau, 1954-2021
• No. 716, Originary Thinking and the Elan Vital
• No. 715, Wokeness and the Moral Model
• Benchmarks
• Benjamin Barber - Emil Cioran’s Apophatic Anti-Poesis of Scenic Centrality
• Ian Dennis and Chris Fleming - Dialogue: GA and Politics: Further Thoughts on The Victimary and Other Contemporary Phenomena
• Adam Katz - Mimesis, the Center and Auto-Immunology: A Review of Daniel Ross’s Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Toward a Metacosmics. Open Humanities Press 2021.
• Matthew Taylor - Sensibility’s Double Take: René Girard’s “Two Audiences” and Jane Austen’s Gospel Hermeneutic
• Joakim Wrethed - Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho as a Palimpsest of the Theories of Girard, Gans and de Andrade
• No. 714, Generative Anthropology and Metaphysics
• No. 713, Ethics, Morality, and the Myth of Originary Violence
• No. 712, Conscience and Intentionality
• No. 711, The Children’s Crusade
• No. 710, God, Language, Paradox (20 Years Later)
• No. 709, Violence and the Sacred, 2021
• No. 708, Woke Sexuality
• No. 707, Armageddon, or “We’re all Jews now”
• No. 706, Paradoxes of Jewish Firstness
• No. 705, The Jews
• No. 704, Thoughts on Morality and Ethics
• No. 703, Return to COV&R 2021
• No. 702, GA and Religion: Thoughts on the 2021 GASC Conference
• No. 701, Metaphysics and the Sacred
• No. 700, La différance sacrée
• No. 699, Returning to the Origin
• No. 698, The Sacred in Humanist Anthropology
• No. 697, 2021: Three Belief Systems
• No. 696, Bad Mimesis and Western Decadence
• Benchmarks
• Yuhui Bao - History, Desire, and Sadomasochism in Alice Munro’s “The Beggar Maid”
• Ian Dennis - Natural Beauty: A GA Perspective
• Peter Goldman - A New Way of Interpreting Literature, Shakespeare, and Milton
• Pierre W. Whalon - Theology and anthropology: can each help the other?
• No. 695, Our Future
• No. 694, Originary and Scientific Anthropology
• No. 693, Topics in Originary Thinking
• No. 692, Elements of the Sacred
• No. 691, The Political Sacred
• No. 690, The Woke Overcoming of Metaphysics
• No. 689, Reflections on 1984
• No. 688, Science, Religion, and GA
• No. 687, Metaphysics and archi-écriture
• No. 686, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”
• No. 685, Toward an Originary Phenomenology
• No. 684, The Great Awokening
• No. 683, Hope for the New Decade
• No. 682, A Last Word
• No. 681, The Anthropological Idea of God, Revisited
• No. 680, The GA Future
• No. 679, Bear Theory III – Bear Theology
• No. 678, Pierre Whalon’s Made in Heaven? —A Trinitarian Theology of Marriage
• No. 677, Trump and Tragedy
• Benchmarks
• Marina Ludwigs - The Rhetoric of Meaning: Generative Anthropology and the Rhetorical Approach to Narratology
• Andrew McKenna - Regenerative Anthropology in Fact, Fiction, and Prophecy: Jefferson, Douglass, Twain, Lincoln
• Matthew Taylor - Rebecca Adams’ Model of “Loving Mimesis”:
  An Overview and Assessment
• No. 676, Originary Sin II – Finishing Humanity
• No. 675, Originary Sin
• No. 674, Violence and the Sacred, 2020 AD
• No. 673, The West’s Last Best Hope
• No. 672, Firstness in the Digital Age
• No. 671, Modernism and the Triumph of the Market
• No. 670, The Paradox of Desire and Art
• No. 669, The Human Paradox
• No. 668, The Fatal Flaw II
• No. 667, The Fatal Flaw
• No. 666, Thermidor—or Untergang?
• No. 665, Originary Reflections on the Present
• No. 664, Getting to the Bottom
• No. 663, Apotheosis of Resentment
• No. 662, The Crisis of Firstness
• No. 661, Communities of Meaning
• No. 660, From Kant to GA: Four Reflections
• No. 659, Art and Faith
• No. 658, Future Perspectives
• No. 657, A COVID Silver Lining?
• Benchmarks
• Ian Dennis - Celebrity, Cinema, History: Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clyde, The Highwaymen
• No. 656, Lust, Caution: Love, East and West
• No. 655, Morality and Ethics in a Time of Crisis
• Martin Fashbaugh - Language, Culture, Banality, and Resentment: The Turn Toward and the Return from the Linguistic in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Adam Katz - The Linguistic Turn and Generative Literacy
• Marina Ludwigs - Hierarchical Thinking, Grammatical Structures, and the Originary Scene
• No. 654, Bear Theory II – Thérèse and the Bears
• No. 653, GA and psychoanalysis?
• No. 652, A defense of liberalism—and its “victims”
• No. 651, Religion, Love, and Common Sense
• No. 650, Sacred Resentment
• No. 649, Sacred Love
• No. 648, The Anthropological Idea of God—32 Years Later
• No. 647, Identity Politics and the Sacred
• No. 646, Paradoxical Anthropology
• No. 645, Screenic Beauty
• No. 644, Hope for the New Decade
• No. 643, GA at the End of the Decade
• No. 642, The West’s Crisis of Firstness
• No. 641, The Paradox of Textuality
• No. 640, The Paradox of Jewish Firstness
• No. 639, Avatars of Firstness
• No. 638, GA, heir to French Theory
• No. 637, The West’s Judeo-Christian Crisis
• No. 636, Pascal’s Pari
• No. 635, Toward a GA Synthesis
• No. 634, Being and Languaging, Heidegger and Hegel
• Adam Katz - Introduction to the 2019 Conference Issue
• Benchmarks/Abstracts/Keywords
• Benjamin Barber - Immanence, Transcendence, and Interdividual Desire in Nietzsche, Bataille, and Levinas
• Andrew J. McKenna - Shakespeare’s Linguistic Turn in King Lear
• No. 633, A GA Cogito and other philosophical reinterpretations
• Richard van Oort - Shakespeare’s Heroines and the Constancy of Love
• Matthew Taylor - Beholding the Beholder’s Eye: Beauty and Mimetic Effects in Jane Austen
• Adam Katz - Book Review: Nemesis: The Jouvenelian vs. the Liberal Model of Human Orders, by C.A. Bond
• No. 632, Two reflections on la différance
• No. 631, What’s the différance?
• No. 630, Noblesse Oblige
• No. 629, Crossing the Rubicon
• No. 628, The Light Bulb of Claude Lévi-Strauss
• No. 627, The Social Origins of Language – I
• No. 626, Toward a GA Ethic
• No. 625, Event Denial
• No. 624, 2019 GASC Talk–The Deferral of Violence Through Representation: Why We Need the Origin of Language
• No. 623, The Question of Transcendence
• No. 622, The 2019 GA Summer Conference
• No. 621, The Epistemology of Resentment
• No. 620, Originarism and Anti-Originarism
• No. 619, Reflections on “The Linguistic Turn” – 3. Philosophy and Humanistic Anthropology
• No. 618, Reflections on “The Linguistic Turn” – 2. On reading De la grammatologie
• No. 617, Reflections on “The Linguistic Turn” – 1. Metaphysical Closure
• No. 616, Speaking of the Soul (for Herbert Morris)
• No. 615, On GA and Cinema
• Benchmarks/Abstracts/Keywords
• Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska - A Note on the Warsaw GASC
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Two Eccentric Theorists of the Origin of Language: Oswald Spengler and William Olaf Stapledon
• Ian Dennis - Human Beauty and Reciprocity in the Market World: A Preliminary Inquiry
• Peter Goldman - The Emergence of Aesthetic Self-Reference
• Adam Katz - Generative Anthropology as the One Big Discipline
• No. 614, Left and Right
• Matthew Taylor - Gods of the Marketplace: The “Work Ethic” from Max Weber to Universal Basic Income
• Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska - Generative Anthropology’s Scene of Origin in Cognitive and Axiological Contexts
• No. 613, Poets, Intellectuals, and Generative Anthropologists
• No. 612, A Heroine for Our Time
• No. 611, Whatever Happened to Ockham’s Razor?
• No. 610, Releasing the Hedgehog
• No. 609, Liberal Democracy Today
• No. 608, How to Talk to Girls at Parties: The Cinema of John Cameron Mitchell
• No. 607, Salvation from the East?
• No. 606, Sovereignty and Firstness
• No. 605, UFT 7: Coda – The Two Phases of the Victimocracy
• No. 604, UFT VI – Concluding Unscientific Postscript (with apologies to SK)
• No. 603, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory: Part V – A Morality of Firstness
• No. 602, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory: Part IV – Victimary Theology
• No. 601, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory: Part III – The International Scene
• No. 600, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory: Part II – The Universal Utopia
• No. 599, The Sublime Mrs. Gaskell
• No. 598, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory*
• No. 597, The Virtue of Nationalism
• No. 596, The One God and the Nation
• Benchmarks/Abstracts/Keywords
• Roman Katsman - Crisis of the Victimary Paradigm in Contemporary Russian Literature in Israel
  (An applied case study of Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology)
• Marina Ludwigs - Cringing and Other Desacralizing Affects in Post-Millennial Aesthetics
• Richard van Oort - Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
• Joakim Wrethed - Suffering as the Embodiment of the Sacred in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “A Letter” and “Tale of the 672nd Night”
• No. 595, National Identity
• No. 594, Questions of Identity
• No. 593, On Rereading the Chronicles – A Birthday Message
• No. 592, Originary Ontology
• No. 591, In the beginning was the word: GA as a religious anthropology – Part 2
• No. 590, In the beginning was the word: GA as a religious anthropology – Part I
• No. 589, The Little Bang
• No. 588, Victimary Fundamentalism
• No. 587, Three Modes of Faith
• No. 586, The Victimary Religion
• No. 585, Generative Theology
• No. 584, Language, God, and Metaphysics
• No. 583, More Thoughts on Liberalism
• No. 582, The Future of Liberalism
• Benchmarks
• Peter Goldman - “By merit more than birthright”: Election and the Logic of Modernity in Paradise Lost
• Adam Katz - Power and Paradox
• Marina Ludwigs - From de Man to Gans: The Return of the Referent
• No. 581, Anthropological Ecumenism
• No. 580, Paradox
• No. 579, The Centre
• No. 578, The Esthetic in History
• No. 577, Institutional Representation: The Esthetic II
• No. 576, Institutional Culture: The Esthetic I
• No. 575, Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology
• No. 574, Ostensive Morality and Declarative Ethics
• No. 573, Generative Anthropology and Social Science
• No. 572, What Is Religion? The Jewish Question
• No. 571, The Last Shall Be the First: Two Reflections
• No. 570, The Originary Performative
• No. 569, Luther and Performative Christianity (A Christmas Chronicle)
• No. 568, A Disciple’s Transdisciplinary Creed: One Big Discipline; or, Faith in Science, Science of Faith (Guest Chronicler: Adam Katz)
• No. 567, Daniel Everett’s How Language Began
• No. 566, Vale of Tears: Religion in the Modern Age
• Benchmarks
• Marina Ludwigs and Elisabet Dellming - Introduction to the 2017 Conference Issue
• Bjorn Beijnon - Enactive Cinematic Perception: The Cinema as Exploration of the (Re)Presented World
• Elisabet Dellming - Imagination, Irreality, and the Constitution of Knowledge in Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower
• Ian Dennis - Songs of Leonard Cohen: Postmodernity, The Victimary, Irony, A Blaze of Light
• Giles Whiteley - “Inverted Rites”: Reading Girard reading Pater reading Shakespeare
• No. 565, The Aborted Gesture
• Joakim Wrethed - The Phenomenology of Representation, Ritual, and the Sacred in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
• Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska - Generative Anthropology and the Mahabharata: Cognition, Narrative, Culture
• No. 564, Neo-Populism
• No. 563, Victimary “Humanism”
• No. 562, Liberal Democracy in Question
• No. 561, Common Sense
• No. 560, Some Victimary Reflections
• No. 559, The New Origin of Language: Supplement to the Introduction – The Linguistic Dialectic
• No. 558, The Decline of the Western
• No. 557, The New Origin of Language: (Tentative) Conclusion
• No. 556, The New Origin of Language Part 13: The Esthetics of Linguistic Forms
• No. 555, Toward a Preface to The New Origin of Language II: Sign and Event
• No. 554, Toward a Preface to The New Origin of Language
• No. 553, Stockholm GASC: Anna Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantics and Generative Anthropology, Part 2
• No. 552, Stockholm GASC: Anna Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantics and Generative Anthropology, Part 1
• No. 551, The Moral Model
• No. 550, GASC’s Tenth Anniversary
• No. 549, Brave New World bis?
• No. 548, The New Origin of Language Part 12: The Declarative I
• No. 547, The New Origin of Language Part 11: Negation as Predication: The Origin of the Declarative
• No. 546, The New Origin of Language Part 10: Dialectic of the Imperative (II)
• No. 545, The New Origin of Language Part 9: Imperative Dialogue
• No. 544, The New Origin of Language Part 8: The Fundamental Asymmetry of the Speech Situation
• No. 543, The New Origin of Language Part 7: Elementary Forms and Grammatical Structures
• No. 542, The New Origin of Language Part 6: The Imperative II
• Benchmarks
• Peter Goldman - John Milton on Ecclesiastical Free Markets and Weber’s Protestant Ethic
• Amir Khan - Ostensive Dreams and Declarative Nightmares: Northrop Frye, Marshall McLuhan and George Grant
• Benjamin Matthews - Anti-Hierarchical Culture in Media-Based Creative Collectives: Sketching Originary Analyses
• Kieran Stewart - Nietzsche’s Early Theory of Language in Light of Generative Anthropology
• Matthew Taylor - Scenes of Distress: Reflections on Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History”
• No. 541, Morality and Ethics in the Global Age
• No. 540, The New Origin of Language Part 5: The Imperative I
• No. 539, The New Origin of Language Part 4: Linguistics of the Ostensive
• No. 538, Victimary Passion
• No. 537, The New Origin of Language Part 3: The Ostensive
• No. 536, The New Origin of Language Part 2: Formal and Institutional Representation
• No. 535, The New Origin of Language: (A Derridean Parenthesis)
• No. 534, The New Origin of Language: Part 1
• No. 533, The New Origin of Language: Introduction
• No. 532, Demons of Democracy
• No. 531, Paradox and the Sacred
• No. 530, The Jew as Scapegoat
• No. 529, GA and Social Media
• No. 528, Conceiving Language Origin
• No. 527, Three Post-Election Thoughts
• No. 526, Felix Culpa – Notes on the Election
• No. 525, Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech
• No. 524, Return to Political Civility?
• Benchmarks
• Kiyoshi Kawahara and Matthew Taylor - Introduction to the 2016 Conference Issue
• Kinjo Occult Research Group - A Door to another World: The Imagination in Japanese Folkways and Religion
• No. 523, Why Originary Thinking?
•        Aya Ryusawa - Mastering the Visualization of Heroic Narratives within Daimyō Families: The Illustrated Scroll of Shutendōji in the Edo period
•        Aya Ryusawa - Mastering the Visualization of Heroic Narratives within Daimyō Families: The Illustrated Scroll of Shutendōji in the Edo period (Japanese)
•        Kenshin Kirihara - The Birth of a Myth: Civil War and Sacrifice in Early Meiji Japan
•        Kenshin Kirihara - The Birth of a Myth: Civil War and Sacrifice in Early Meiji Japan (Japanese)
•        Shoko Komatsu - The Haunted Mansion and <Woman>: Otherworldly Apparitions in the Modern Cities of Japan
•        Shoko Komatsu - The Haunted Mansion and <Woman>: Otherworldly Apparitions in the Modern Cities of Japan (Japanese)
• Edmond Wright - How to read religious poems anthropoetically (using examples from Gerard Manley Hopkins and Kobayashi Issa)
• Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska - Cratos as Cognition: Gans and Dumézil in Dialogue on Language and Violence
• No. 522, Religion and Cognition
• No. 521, Nation and Empire
• No. 520, Anthropology, Humanistic and Empirical
• No. 519, Michael Tomasello’s A Natural History of Human Morality
• No. 518, Civilization in Crisis?
• No. 517, The Administrative State and the Victimocracy
• No. 516, Nagarjuna and Zeno: Paradox East and West II
• No. 515, Nagarjuna and Zeno: Paradox East and West I
• No. 514, The Triumph of Resentment
• Benchmarks
• No. 513, ET—Not
• Andrew Bartlett - Searching for the Origins of the Vancouver GA Conference (Guest Editor’s Introduction)
• Benchmarks
• Andrew Bartlett - Three Affirmations of the Being of God Suggested by the Anthropological Idea of God
• Richard van Oort - In Memoriam: Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007)
• Ian Dennis - Byronic Irony in Don Juan
• Andrew Bartlett - Frankenstein and Scientific Revelation Frankenstein and the Problem of Modern Science (Part 2 of 3)
• Amir Khan - A Call to Passion
• Adam Katz - The Esthetic, the Sacred, and Originary Modernity
• Benchmarks
• John O’Carroll and Chris Fleming - Towards a New Cultural Studies
• Peter T. Koper - “Reasons” as Deferral: The Dramatization of Argument in The Eumenides
• Andrew Bartlett - Originary Science, Originary Memory Frankenstein and the Problem of Modern Science (Part 1 of 3)
• Benchmarks
• Eugene Webb - Eros and The Psychology of World Views
• Matthew Taylor - Strategies of Dissociation: A Mimetic Dimension to Social Problems in Japan
• Greg Nixon - Mortal Knowledge, the Originary Event, and the Emergence of the Sacred
• Amir Khan - Cultural Studies and Anthropology
• Richard van Oort - Imitation and Human Ontogeny: Michael Tomasello and the Scene of Joint Attention
• Christopher S. Morrissey - Original Sin and Generative Anthropology
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Henry James, “the Death of God,” and “Theory”: The Aspern Papers, The Princess Casamassima, and The Sacred Fount
• Benchmarks
• Eric Gans - Generative Anthropology – A New Way of Thinking?
• Eric Gans - White Guilt, Past and Future
• Ian Dennis - Introduction to the GASC 2009 Special Issue
• Dawn Perlmutter - Mujahideen Desecration: Beheadings, Mutilation & Muslim Iconoclasm
• Benchmarks
• Raoul Eshelman - Performatism in Art
• Jean-Pierre Dupuy - Rational Choice before the Apocalypse
• Andrew Bartlett - Keeping the Monster at a Distance: Artificial Humanity and Victimary Otherness (Frankenstein and the Problem of Modern Science, Part 3 of 3)
• Raphaël Baeriswyl - Use and Perception of Violence: A Girardian Approach to Asymmetric Warfare
• Benchmarks
• Edmond Wright - Gregory Bateson: Epistemology, Language, Play and the Double Bind
• Herbert Plutschow - Ancient Human Sacrifice on China’s Periphery
• Richard van Oort - Kenneth Burke’s Shakespearean Anthropology: Scott L. Newstok, editor. Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007. 368 pp.
• Adam Katz - Marginalist Politics, Political Grammar
• Peter Goldman - Blowup, Film Theory, and the Logic of Realism
• Benchmarks
• Matthew Taylor - Traipsing into the Forest: Landscapes and Rivalry in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
• Scott Sprenger - Mérimée’s Literary Anthropology: Residual Sacrality and Marital Violence in “Lokis”
• Robert J. Hudson - Clément Marot and the “Invention” of the French Sonnet: Innovating the Lyrical Imperative in Renaissance France
• Ian Dennis - The Pastoral Victim’s Progress: Crabbe to Britten
• Andrew Bartlett - The Object of Originary Violence and the Second Person of the Trinity
• Matthew Schneider - “What’s my name?” Toward a Generative Anthroponomastics
• Richard van Oort - Doubt, Compromise, and Doublethink: Transcendence in a Secular Age
• Sylvie Nelson - The End of Criticism
• Marina Ludwigs - Group Destiny in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
• Robert J. Hudson - Mouchette and the Sacrificial Scene: Bresson’s Cinematic Anthropology
• Raphael Foshay - Mimesis in Plato’s Republic and Its Interpretation by Girard and Gans
• Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll - Originary Economics and the Genesis of Advertising
• Raoul Eshelman - Transcendence and the Aesthetics of Disability: The Case of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Benchmarks
• Simon Watson - Review Essay: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and Atheist Fundamentalism
• Emma Peacocke - “A novel word in my vocabulary”: Laughter and the Evolution of the Byronic Model into Don Juan
• Marina Ludwigs - Three Gaps of Representation / Three Meanings of Transcendence
• Adam Katz - From Habit to Maxim: Eccentric Models of Reality and Presence in the Writing of Gertrude Stein
• Kyle Karthauser - Popular Culture after Postmodernism: Borat, Family Guy, The Office, and the Awkwardness of Being Earnest
• Peter Goldman - The Meaning of Meaning in Kafka’s The Castle
• Jean-Loup Amselle - To Count or Not to Count: The Debate on Ethnic and Diversity Statistics in France Today
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• Eleanor Scholz - Justifying the Esthetic in Kafka’s “Josephine the Singer”
• John O’Carroll and Chris Fleming - The Dying of the Epic
• Antonio Machuco - Violence and Truth in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino
• Marina Ludwigs - “A Democracy of Touch”: Masochism and Tenderness in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• Thomas F. Bertonneau with assistance from Susan D. Bertonneau - “Le Cor” and “La Mort du loup”: The Scenic Imagination in Two Poems by Alfred de Vigny
• Andrew Bartlett - Originary Human Personhood
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• Dawn Perlmutter - The Semiotics of Honor Killing & Ritual Murder
• Peter Goldman - The Winter’s Tale and Antitheatricalism: Shakespeare’s Rehabilitation of the Public Scene
• Martin Fashbaugh - Love, Jealousy, and Genre Interplay in Great Expectations and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
• Raoul Eshelman - Performatism, Dexter, and the Ethics of Perpetration
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• Peter Goldman and Robert J. Hudson - Introduction to the GASC 2010 Special Issue
• Per Bjørnar Grande - Desire in The Great Gatsby
• Marina Ludwigs - The Posthuman Turn in Dave Eggers’ The Circle
• Benjamin Barber - The Rum Diary: An Introduction to Hunter S. Thompson’s Esthetic Evolution
• Ian Dennis - Romantic Joy: A Definition and A Deployment
• Adam Katz - Originary Mistakenness, Defilement and Modernity
• Matthew Schneider - A Paean to Power: Resistance to GA and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
• No. 512, The “Real” Donald Trump
• Matthew Taylor - Mansfield Park and Scandal
• Benjamin Matthews - Virality and the New Ostensive: Ai Weiwei’s Leg-Gun Meme
• Benchmarks
• Edmond Wright - Generative Anthropology and Triangulation Theory
• Marina Ludwigs - Adventures in Sainthood: Pascal’s Wager in Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s
• Melanie Long - Merchantry, Usury, Villainy: Capitalism and the Threat to Community Integrity in The Merchant of Venice
• Roman Katsman - Cultural Rhetoric, Generative Anthropology, and Narrative Conflict
• Ian Dennis - The Sexual Market: Three Romantic Moments
• Benchmarks
• Edmond Wright - A linguistic source for the myth of the Summum Bonum, and how it should be played
• Matthew Taylor - Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Muen Shakai and Its Implications
• Adam Katz - The Redemption of Hostages
• Ian Dennis - Contemporary Tragic Representation and Response: An Originary Exploration
• Andrew Bartlett - A Minimal Model for Apocalyptic Thinking
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• Edmond Wright - Wordsworth’s ‘Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’: An Anthropoetic Analysis
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• Benjamin Barber - Neoclassical Protagonists in Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV
• Benchmarks
• Ian Dennis & Stacey Meeker, Guest Editors - Introduction to the GASC 2013 Issue
• Benchmarks
• Matthew Schneider - Wordsworthian Songcatching in America
• Dawn Perlmutter - Mujahideen Blood Rituals: The Religious and Forensic Symbolism of Al Qaeda Beheading
• Raoul Eshelman - After Postmodernism: Performatism in Literature
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Of Which We May Speak: Meditations on Irony, Eccentricity, and Faith
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• Clare Sims - Christian Sin and Mimetic Contagion: Repentance in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
• Adam Katz - Remembering Amalek: 9/11 and Generative Thinking
• Peter Goldman - Consumer Society and its Discontents: The Truman Show and The Day of the Locust
• Raoul Eshelman - Checking out of the Epoch: Performatism in Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Hotel Capital” vs. Late Postmodernism in Ali Smith’s Hotel World (with remarks on Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Miloš Urban’s Sevenchurch)
• Benchmarks
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• Tobin Siebers - Pushkin and Romantic Self-Criticism
• Dawn Perlmutter - The Forensics of Sacrifice: A Symbolic Analysis of Ritualistic Crime
• Peter T. Koper - The Girl by the Water: Images of Aphrodite as Mediated Desire
• Chris Fleming and John O’Carroll - Understanding Anti-Americanism
• Benchmarks
• Raymond Swing - Conceptualizing and other Generative Acts
• Christopher S. Morrissey - Oedipus the Cliché: Aristotle on Tragic Form and Content
• Fabio Brotto - Anti-pathos: On Italo Svevo’s Zeno’s Conscience
• Jean-Loup Amselle - Africa: A Theme(s) Park
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• Thomas F. Bertonneau - The Acts of an Oedipus: Power, Language, and Sacrifice in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
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• Douglas Collins - From Myth to Market: Bataille’s Americas Lost and Found
• Anthropoetics IV, 1 Benchmarks
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• Eric Gans - Plato and The Birth of Conceptual Thought
• Markus Müller - Reconsidering the Fantastic: An Anthropological Approach
• Richard van Oort - Performative-Constative Revisited: The Genetics of Austin’s Theory of Speech Acts
• Matthew Schneider - “Wrung by sweet enforcement”: Druid Stones and the Problem of Sacrifice in British Romanticism
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• Eric Gans - The Unique Source of Religion and Morality
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Like Hypatia before the Mob: Desire, Resentment, and Sacrifice in James’ The Bostonians (An Anthropoetics)
• Matthew Schneider - Sacred Ambivalence: Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus
• Richard van Oort - Epistemology and Generative Theory: Derrida, Gans, and the Anthropological Subtext of Deconstruction
• Chris Fleming and John O’Carroll - “Revolution!” – The Rhetoric of Exclamation
• Richard van Oort - Introduction to the GASC 2014 Issue
• Peter Goldman - Originary Iconoclasm: The Logic of Sparagmos
• Jean-Pierre Dupuy - A Tribute to René Girard
• Peter Goldman - Shakespeare’s Gentle Apocalypse: The Tempest
• Erik Eisel - “In the Beginning was the Word…”: The Question of the Origin of Language in Goethe’s Faust
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - “The Mysteries of Mimicry” Sublimity and Morality in The Golden Bowl
• Jean-Loup Amselle - Did Africa Invent Human Rights?
• Gabriel Andrade - The Transformation of Kinship in the New Testament
• René Girard - On Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Post-Imperium: The Rhetoric of Liberation and the Return of Sacrifice in the Work of V. S. Naipaul
• Andrew McKenna - Scandal, Resentment, Idolatry: The Underground Psychology of Terrorism
• Ammar Abdulhamid & Eric Gans - A Dialogue on the Middle East and Other Subjects
• Peter Goldman - Hamlet’s Ghost: A Review Article Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton UP, 2001.
• Raoul Eshelman - Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Monstrous Theologies The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi Pulps
• Dawn Perlmutter - The Sacrificial Aesthetic: Blood Rituals from Art to Murder
• Douglas Collins - Justice of the Pieces Deconstruction as a Social Psychology
• Wolfgang Iser - The Significance of Fictionalizing
• Eric Gans - Introductory Remarks
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Celsus, the First Nietzsche: Resentment and the Case Against Christianity
• Eric Gans - Mimetic Paradox and the Event of Human Origin
• Raphael Foshay - The Platonic and Aristotelian Mimetic Paradigms In Light of Gans and Heidegger
• Benjamin Barber - Différance in Revolutionary Representations: Hazlitt’s Activist Rhetoric and Wordsworth’s Poetic Deferral
• Adam Katz - An Introduction to Disciplinarity
• Benjamin Barber - Mimetic Drama in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Byron’s Historicizing Lyricism
• Eric Gans - The Little Bang: The Early Origin of Language
• Marina Ludwigs - City Walking and Narratives of Destiny
• Stacey Meeker - Utopia Limited An Anthropological Response to Richard Rorty
• Richard van Oort - The Challenge of Originary Thinking: A Response to Jean-Loup Amselle
• Raymond Swing - Some Comments on Generative Anthropology
• Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll - Romanticism
• Andrew Bartlett - Nuclear Warfare in the Movies
• Douglas Collins - The Great Effects of Small Things: Insignificance With Immanence in Critical Theory
• Herbert Plutschow - Xunzi and the Ancient Chinese Philosophical Debate on Human Nature
• Raoul Eshelman - Performatism in Architecture. On Framing and the Spatial Realization of Ostensivity
• Scott Sprenger - In the End was the Word: Balzac’s Modernist Absolute
• Mark Featherstone - Speed and Violence: Sacrifice in Virilio, Derrida, and Girard
• Eric Gans - The Sacred and the Social: Defining Durkheim’s Anthropological Legacy
• Tobias Foshay - Intentionality, Originarity, and the “Always Already” In Derrida and Gans
• Eric Gans - Originary Narrative
• René Girard with Markus Müller - Interview with René Girard
• Douglas Collins - L’Amour intellectuel de Dieu: Lacan’s Spinozism and Religious Revival in Recent French Thought
• Richard van Oort - The Anthropology of Speech-Act Literary Criticism: A Review Article
• Marina Ludwigs - What propels narratives forward? Narrative as Janus
• Ian Dennis - Reflections on the Popular/High Art Continuum : Seven small essays, ventures, somewhat in the original French sense of the word essai
• Benjamin Matthews - Victimary Thinking, Celebrity and the CCTV Building
• Andrew Bartlett - Girard and the Question of Pacifism
• Robert Rois - The Oliphant and Roland’s Sacrificial Death
• William Mishler - The Question of the Origin of Language in René Girard, Eric Gans, and Kenneth Burke
• Richard van Oort - The Hero Who Wouldn’t Be: Coriolanus and the Scene of Tragic Paradox
• Ian Dennis - Student Resentment and Professorial Desire in Higher Education
• The Sparagmos! Group: Pablo Bandera, Andrew Bartlett, Christopher Morrissey and Richard van Oort - Sparagmos! A Dialogue on Girard and Gans
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Intellectualism and the Gnostic Debacle: Julian the Apostate in the Modern Literary Imagination
• Raoul Eshelman - Performatism in the Movies (1997-2003)
• David C. Rapoport - The Four Waves of Rebel Terror and September 11
• Adam Katz - The Originary Scene, Sacrifice, and the Politics of Normalization in A.B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani
• Gabor Varga - The Emergence of Logical Thought: How to Interpret Contradiction and Consistency in Early Greek Culture Part 1. Homer
• Cecily Hurst - The Origin of Language in Chinese Thought
• Jeffrey Spisak - Fear, Pity, and the Master: Rousseau and the Status of Mimetic Structures
• Gabor Varga - Orality and Literacy : The Development of Philosophy into Logical Thought
• Peter Goldman - Christian Mystery and Responsibility Gnosticism in Derrida’s The Gift of Death
• Peter Goldman - The Sign of the Cross in John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Two Footnotes: On the Double Necessity of Girard and Gans
• William Mishler - Bone of the Lamb, Blood of the Lamb: Ibsen’s Brand and Generative Anthropology
• Andrew McKenna - Art and Incarnation: Oscillating Views
• Herbert Plutschow - Archaic Chinese Sacrificial Practices in the Light of Generative Anthropology
• Sandor Goodhart - Difference and Deference: Reading Deferral in Beckett, Derrida, and Gans in a Time of Disaster
• Robert Rois - Shared Guilt for the Ambush at Roncevaux
• Thomas F. Bertonneau - Flaubert’s Tentation de Saint-Antoine: Three Approaches
• Herbert Plutschow - An Anthropological Perspective on the Japanese Tea Ceremony
• Matthew Schneider - The Nowhere Man and Mother Nature’s Son: Collaboration and Resentment in the Lyrical Ballads and the Beatles
• Martin Fashbaugh - Creating “An Infinite World All Its Own”: The Poetics of Resentment in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Epipsychidion
• Eugene Webb - René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious Sacrifice
• Marina Ludwigs - The Limit of Explanation: Following the “Why” to its Epistemological Terminus
• Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll - Notes on Generative Anthropology: Towards an Ethics of the Hypothesis
• Nils Zurawski - Girard among the Paramilitaries of Ulster: Identity, History, and Violence
• Dawn Perlmutter - Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists
• Herbert Plutschow - Tragic Victims in Japanese Religion, Politics, and the Arts
• Scott Sprenger - Balzac as Anthropologist
• Andrew McKenna - Religious Differance
• Richard van Oort - The Use of Fiction in Literary and Generative Anthropology: An Interview with Wolfgang Iser
• Matthew Schneider - Mimetic Polemicism: René Girard and Harold Bloom contra the “School of Resentment” A Review Essay
• Matthew Schneider - Writing in the Dust: Irony and Lynch-Law in the Gospel of John
• Tobin Siebers - Philosophy and Its Other–Violence: A Survey of Philosophical Repression From Plato to Girard
• Dawn Perlmutter - The Demand for Purity: The Nature of Islamist Symbolism, Protest, and Violence
• Marina Ludwigs - Epiphany and Closure in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
• Samuel Sackeroff - The Ends of Deferral
• Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll - Paganism: Promising Promises and Resentful Results
• Adam Katz - Attentionality and Originary Ethics: Upclining
• Lahoucine Ouzgane - Dreiser and Sister Carrie’s Kingdom of Greatness
• Matthew Schneider - “What matters is the system!” The Beatles, the “Passover Plot,” and Conspiratorial Narrativity
• Lahoucine Ouzgane - Mimesis and Moral Agency in Wharton’s The House of Mirth
• James G. Williams - René Girard without the Cross? Religion and the Mimetic Theory
• Edmond Wright - Faith as the Prime Epistemological Virtue
• Ken Mayers - Deferral, Discipline, and the Esthetics of Failure: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Matthew Schneider - Oscar Wilde on Learning Outcomes Assessment
• Peter Goldman - Girard and Bakhtin on the Novel
• Andrew McKenna - Voltaire’s Victims and Us
• Kieran Stewart - Origins of the Sacred: A Conversation between Eric Gans and Mircea Eliade
• Trevor Cribben Merrill - The Comedy of Desire: Four Variations and a Coda in Homage to René Girard
• Richard van Oort - René Girard’s Shakespeare
• No. 511, Language and Originary Otherness
• No. 510, Scandal to the Jews, Folly to the Pagans
• No. 509, Donald Trump, Metaconservative
• No. 508, Our Duce
• No. 507, The Secret of Mensonge romantique
• No. 506, The Feminine Novel and the Esthetics of the Modern Era II
• No. 505, The Feminine Novel and the Esthetics of the Modern Era I
• No. 504, Learning from Chomsky
• No. 503, Obama and Fukuyama
• No. 502, Firstness: Death and Resurrection?
• No. 501, Paris and Columbia, MO
• No. 500, René Girard, in memoriam
• No. 499, Firstness and Victimary Religion
• No. 498, The Realm of Freedom
• No. 497, Post-Fukuyama Reflections
• No. 496, Religion and Firstness
• No. 495, Language and Paradox
• No. 494, End of the End of History
• No. 493, Reality Politics
• No. 492, The Ascriptive Age
• No. 491, The Crisis of Christianity
• No. 490, Terrence Deacon’s Incomplete Nature
• No. 489, The Ninth Annual GASC
• No. 488, Digital Humanity III: The Scene and the Laboratory
• No. 487, Digital Humanity II
• No. 486, Arabella, The Female Quixote: Beauty in Mediation
• No. 485, GA, NWT: A Pep Talk
• No. 484, The Moral Model and the Scandal of the Secular Sign
• No. 483, Digital Humanities at UCLA
• No. 482, Biddy the Hedgehog, RIP
• No. 481, GA and the Media
• No. 480, Victimary Theology
• No. 479, What is language for, anyway? (part 3)
• No. 478, On Being and Nothingness
• No. 477, Digital Humanity
• No. 476, Violence, or the Sacred
• No. 475, BS, Ecriture, Scripture: Three Degrees of Political Rhetoric
• No. 474, Blaming the Victim
• No. 473, The Final Conflict— Lost?
• No. 472, Minimal Language
• No. 471, The Scene of Language
• No. 470, Bear Theory
• No. 469, Nation vs Tribe
• No. 468, National Antisemitism
• No. 467, Israeli Firstness and Colonial Resentment
• No. 466, Generative Anthropology as Grammatology
• No. 465, 2084
• No. 464, The Eighth GA Summer Confererence
• No. 463, Still More on the Victimary
• No. 462, God’s Cogito and Ours
• No. 461, More on the Victimary
• No. 460, The Victimary Hypothesis
• No. 459, Virtues Old and New: Toward an Analysis of Victimocracy
• No. 458, Sin II
• No. 457, Sin and Resentment
• No. 456, How not to write about religion
• No. 455, Anthrophilosophy
• No. 454, What is language for, anyway? Three musings
• No. 453, What is language for, anyway?
• No. 452, GA, Firstness, and Antisemitism
• No. 451, Reciprocity and Firstness
• No. 450, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, and Generative Anthropology – Guest columnist: Peter Goldman
• No. 449, The Tea Party
• No. 448, Eichmann in Obamaland
• No. 447, More on the Humanities
• No. 446, The Meme, Revisited
• No. 445, Why Generative Anthropology? – Guest columnist: Peter Goldman
• No. 444, Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos
• No. 443, GA Enivronmentalism – Guest columnist: Andrew Bartlett
• No. 442, Victimocracy
• No. 441, GA vs BA or The Mind-Body Fallacy
• No. 440, GA’s Humanist Hypothesis
• No. 439, Charles Baudelaire II
• No. 438, Charles Baudelaire I
• No. 437, The Name of God
• No. 436, Christian Monism, Hebrew Dualism
• No. 435, Abraham’s Three Firsts
• No. 434, Christian and Jew at the Origin
• No. 433, Confessions of a Bronx-French Intellectual
• No. 432, Originary Ethics II – Firstness and Hierarchy
• No. 431, Originary Ethics
• No. 430, The End of Antisemitism?
• No. 429, Antisemitism: From Paradox to BS
• No. 428, Aurora and “Radical Evil”
• No. 427, WWII and the Victimary Era: II
• No. 426, WWII and the Victimary Era: I
• No. 425, Antisemitism: The Fatal Paradox
• No. 424, A GA Criterion of Social Health
• No. 423, Nim and Nothingness
• No. 422, Humanism and Paradox
• No. 421, Mediating Anti-Semitism – Guest columnist: Adam Katz
• No. 420, On Obscurity
• No. 419, Originary Feminism
• No. 418, Art and Markets – Guest columnist: Andrew McKenna
• No. 417, On the Gift
• No. 416, Jewish Firstness II: The Postmodern Era
• No. 415, Jewish Firstness I: To the Holocaust
• No. 414, The Occupation of Utopia
• No. 413, Blame It on the Nazis
• No. 412, The Decline of Humanism?
• No. 411, Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Girard and GA
• No. 410, How to Write about the Holocaust
• No. 409, Myths of Totemic Origin in Lévi-Strauss and Girard
• No. 408, Reflections on GASC V: GA and Humanistic Thought II
• No. 407, Reflections on GASC V: GA and Humanistic Thought I
• No. 406, Marx and Monotheism
• No. 405, The Jewish Barber
• No. 404, Resentment, Jealousy, and Mimetic Desire
• No. 403, Heuristic Necessity
• No. 402, The Originary Hypothesis (Stanford version)
• No. 401, The Sublime and the Beautiful
• No. 400, Dialogue on Islamovictimism (with Adam Katz)
• No. 399, Islamovictimism in the News
• No. 398, GA for the Humanities
• No. 397, GA: The Other Intellectual Scene
• No. 396, GA and the Lyric Scene
• No. 395, Poetry and the N-Principle
• No. 394, Haven’t we always been modern?
• No. 393, Scenes and Screens: Notes on the MQB
• No. 392, Autocritique II: The Final Chapter of the Scenic Imagination
• No. 391, Autocritique
• No. 390, The Fundamental Paradox of Signification
• No. 389, Gregory Bateson’s Paradoxes of Communication
• No. 388, Ecriture from Barthes to GA
• No. 387, Louise d’Haussonville
• No. 386, Emile Durkheim, Originary Hedgehog
• No. 385, Pascal Bruckner’s La tyrannie de la pénitence
• No. 384, From Phenomenology to Generative Anthropology
• No. 383, Hermeneutics
• No. 382, Reflections on the Jewish Question
• No. 381, Story and Plot
• No. 380, Originary Thinking and Victimary Politics
• No. 379, A Humanist Declaration of Independence
• No. 378, Poetic Justice: Notes on the Classical Esthetic
• No. 377, The Last Celebrity
• No. 376, The Third Annual GA Summer Conference
• No. 375, The Ethical Paradox and the Origins of Victimary Thought
• No. 374, Pre-Socratics III: Xenophanes and Theology
• No. 373, Pre-Socratics II: Heraclitus and Anaximander
• No. 372, Philosophy to Metaphysics I
• No. 371, Monism or Dualism?
• No. 370, Transcendence
• No. 369, The Esthetic Moment
• No. 368, Judeocentrism
• No. 367, The Dancer from the Dance
• No. 366, Religion and Originary Anthropology
• No. 365, “The End of Ideology”
• No. 364, Carole Landis: A Bronx Romantic’s Reflections on Public Beauty
• No. 363, Ten Years Later
• No. 362, Cosmic Optimism
• No. 361, A Minimal Theodicy: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
• No. 360, Qui perd gagne
• No. 359, Notes for a History of Transcendence
• No. 358, Believing in GA
• No. 357, The New Anthropic Principle
• No. 356, The Question of Transcendence: An Update
• No. 355, A New Mode of Being
• No. 354, Universal Anthropology
• No. 353, A New Way of Thinking
• No. 352, Make Me Laugh
• No. 351, Ecriture and the Deferral of Violence
• No. 350, Transcendence and Cultural Will
• No. 349, The Religion of Impending Disaster
• No. 348, The Four Freedoms
• No. 347, Opening the GATE: The Vancouver “Thinking Event”
• No. 346, New Thoughts on Originary Narrative
• No. 345, Tragedy and Christianity: Minimal and Maximal Faith
• No. 344, Right and Left
• No. 343, Why Do We Believe in GA?
• No. 342, The Crisis of Firstness (Guest Chronicler: Adam Katz)
• No. 341, Victimary Extinction or Religious Survival
• No. 340, Frère Jacques
• No. 339, Originary Demography
• No. 338, The Final Conflict
• No. 337, Ending White Guilt
• No. 336, Woody Allen: Fooling Me Twice
• No. 335, GA in the Public Sphere
• No. 334, GA and the Linguistic Turn
• No. 333, Originary Guilt
• No. 332, GA and Mimetic Theory II: The Scapegoat
• No. 331, Richard Rorty’s Metaphysics
• No. 330, Art and Otherness
• No. 329, GA and Mimetic Theory I: Violence
• No. 328, I Promise
• No. 327, Return of the Sacred II – Secularism
• No. 326, Return of the Sacred I – The Sacred and the Significant
• No. 325, On Realism
• No. 324, Questioning Generative Anthropology
• No. 323, White Guilt VI – From Vietnam to Today
• No. 322, John Rawls’s Originary Theory of Justice
• No. 321, Famous for Being Famous
• No. 320, White Guilt V: The Vietnam Syndrome
• No. 319, Originary Resistance
• No. 318, Pre-Boasian Anthropology: McLennan and Morgan
• No. 317, Franz Boas and the Eclipse of the Scenic Imagination
• No. 316, White Guilt IV: Auschwitz and Hiroshima
• No. 315, Popular Culture Is All We’ve Got
• No. 314, Intelligent Design?
• No. 313, White Guilt III – Democracy and Firstness
• No. 312, Originary Analysis, Revisited
• No. 311, White Guilt II
• No. 310, White Guilt I
• No. 309, More on the Election
• No. 308, The 2004 Election
• No. 307, René et moi
• No. 306, Darwin’s Unfinished Cathedral
• No. 305, The “Supernatural”
• No. 304, “Pomo Homer”: A Review of the Troy Movie (Guest Chronicler: Christopher S. Morrissey)
• No. 303, COV&R 2004 and the Future
• No. 302, Antisemitism from a Judeocentric Perspective II
• No. 301, Antisemitism from a Judeocentric Perspective I
• No. 300, High and Low Esthetics
• No. 299, My Book about Carole Landis
• No. 298, Why Art Defies Analysis
• No. 297, The Youth Culture – Fifty Years Later
• No. 296, Gay Marriage II – The End of Kinship
• No. 295, It Was Forty Years Ago Today: The Beatles and the Triumph of Cowboy Culture (Guest columnist: Matthew Schneider)
• No. 294, What is a Biography?
• No. 293, Affirmation of Life III – Originary Analysis of Terrorism
• No. 292, Affirmation of Life II – Life or Death
• No. 291, Affirmation of Life: I – The Gift of Beauty
• No. 290, The new antisemitism and the bankruptcy of victimary thought
• No. 289, “Gay Marriage”: An Originary Analysis
• No. 288, Carole Landis and the Concept of Public Beauty
• No. 287, The Market and Resentment (II)
• No. 286, The Market and Resentment (I)
• No. 285, Carole Landis, Revisited
• No. 284, What’s New and Old about the Origin of Language (II)
• No. 283, What’s New and Old about the Origin of Language (I)
• No. 282, Roy Rappaport and The Originary Anthropology of the Sacred
• No. 281, Confessions of a Dialectical Hedgehog
• No. 280, Carole Landis
• No. 279, Antisemitism and Anti-Americanism
• No. 278, Marx II: Scenes of Revolution
• No. 277, Karl Marx’s Sceneless Socialism: I – The Originary Moment
• No. 276, Two Films: Reflections on Popular Culture
• No. 275, Reality TV
• No. 274, Nietzsche’s Scenic Utopia
• No. 273, Hegel’s Master and Slave
• No. 272, Rousseau’s Social Contract
• No. 271, The Kantian Sublime
• No. 270, Joseph de Maistre: First Anthropologist?
• No. 269, Mulholland Drive
• No. 268, Edmund Burke: Ending the Enlightenment
• No. 267, The New Anti-Semitism
• No. 266, The Last Imperialist
• No. 265, Who Are We Now?
• No. 264, Anthropology and Mortality
• No. 263, COV&R: The Third Time…
• No. 262, Originary and/or Kantian Esthetics III: The Esthetic Social Contract
• No. 261, Originary and/or Kantian Esthetics II
• No. 260, Originary and/or Kantian Esthetics I
• No. 259, Originary and Provisional Morality
• No. 258, On Esthetic Periodization
• No. 257, Our Neo-Victimary Era
• No. 256, René Girard and the Overcoming of Metaphysics
• No. 255, The Scenic Imagination: Modern Times
• No. 254, More on the Scenic Imagination: The Enlightenment
• No. 253, Post-Millennial Thoughts
• No. 252, The Scenic Imagination: I – Before and after Christianity
• No. 251, Scapegoating after September 11
• No. 250, More on Negotiational Justice
• No. 249, Two Concepts of Justice
• No. 248, Window of Opportunity
• No. 247, Holding up Our End of History
• No. 246, GA Twenty Years After
• No. 245, Minimizing Difference
• No. 244, The New World Order
• No. 243, The Chinese Dao of Language
• No. 242, We Are All Buddhists Now
• No. 241, On Consumption and Immortality
• No. 240, Apologia
• No. 239, On Time and the Novel
• No. 238, Telling One’s Story
• No. 237, Moral Heroism
• No. 236, Freud’s Originary Parricide
• No. 235, Les Liaisons dangereuses
• No. 234, Vico’s Originary Science
• No. 233, Art after the End of History
• No. 232, Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Pre-Darwinian Structuralism
• No. 231, Paris in the Springtime
• No. 230, Victimary Thinking Forever?
• No. 229, We are all generative anthropologists now
• No. 228, Film Realism
• No. 227, La mondialisation
• No. 226, On Being and Time
• No. 225, Risking Death: Realism and the “Standard Narrative Model”
• No. 224, Thoughts for a Dying Millennium
• No. 223, Art, High and Popular
• No. 222, Justice and Resentment
• No. 221, Resentment, or the Sense of Injustice
• No. 220, Originary Thoughts on Sexuality
• No. 219, The Victim’s Hard Death and Democracy’s Moral Paradox
• No. 218, Post-Victimary Thinking in the Holy Land
• No. 217, November Choices
• No. 216, Faith and Factoids
• No. 215, Back to the Origin of Language
• No. 214, NOP
• No. 213, Happy Birthday: Blues Riffs
• No. 212, Still More On Celebrity
• No. 211, Tycoon, Yuppie, and Bobo: Three Stages in the Esthetic of Consumption
• No. 210, Is GA Too Perfect?
• No. 209, The Post-Millennial Age
• No. 208, Our Post-Postmodern Bobos
• No. 207, The Persistence of Anti-Semitism
• No. 206, Locke’s Little Bang
• No. 205, Originary and Evolutionary Esthetics
• No. 204, The Novelistic Attitude
• No. 203, Originary Thinking, Cognitive Science, and Religion
• No. 202, GA and Esthetics: Ideas for a Research Program
• No. 201, GA and Not-so-Social Science
• No. 200, Minimal Faith: The Human as Event
• No. 199, Clouzot’s Cruel Crow
• No. 198, Emile Durkheim, Hedgehog (Language Origin in History X)
• No. 197, Whither GA?
• No. 196, Levels of Intentionality
• No. 195, Language Origin in History IX: Durkheim and Sacred Representation (I)
• No. 194, Body and Soul
• No. 193, Culture vs. Exchange
• No. 192, Language Origin in History VIII: Max Müller’s Originary Sunrise
• No. 191, Language Origin in History VII: Herder’s Bleating Sheep
• No. 190, Does God Exist?
• No. 189, Language Origin in History VI: Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages
• No. 188, Adorers of Literature Scared of Criticism
• No. 187, Oulipo
• No. 186, Three Kinds of Authority
• No. 185, Language Origin in History V: Rousseau’s Prelinguistic Pity
• no. 184, Sacrificing Culture
• No. 183, Language Origin in History IV Rousseau: Language and Unanimity
• No. 182, Science and Faith in Kansas
• No. 181, GA Futurism
• No. 180, Postmodern GA
• No. 179, Language Origin in History III: Condillac’s Originary Scene (Part 2)
• No. 178, Language Origin in History II: Condillac’s Originary Scene (Part 1)
• No. 177, Herostratus Revisited
• No. 176, History of Language Origin I: Hobbes and Rousseau
• No. 175, Was There an Origin of Language?
• No. 174, Ending History
• No. 173, Toujours le Meme
• No. 172, Kosovo: War in the Postwar Era
• No. 171, The Origin of Religion: Preliminary Reflections
• No. 170, COV&R Story
• No. 169, The Little Bang Theory
• No. 168, The Origin of Language III: Toward Synthesis