On Mimesis, Thick Desires, and the Four Layers of Happiness
Excerpt from my lecture at Notre Dame's Mendoza School of Business—Nov. 8, 2022
Reminder: The next Anti-Mimetic Salon will be with the wonderful Dr. Hollis Robbins, Dean of Humanities at University of Utah, this Thursday, Nov. 17, from 6-7pm EST. A link to the Zoom is in the Anti-Mimetic Community under “Events.” This Salon is for paid subscribers only (when you become a paid subscriber, you receive a complimentary link to the Community). Hollis and I would like to make this one as interactive as we can, so I hope you’re able to join the conversation.
Friends,
I’ve had a very busy week—I flew out to Stanford over the weekend for a seminar on René Girard, then took a red-eye Sunday night straight to Chicago, where I rented a car, drove to South Bend, and launched straight into two days of meetings and activities, including a lecture I delivered yesterday evening at Notre Dame. This prevented me from writing a new essay here. But what I am doing is sharing an abridged portion of my lecture. (It’s not available anywhere else…unless you were at the talk.)
I used this l…