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George Boreas writes essays, short stories and novels applying Rene Girard’s theory of imitation to the modern world — its economics, its politics, and its madness.

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Science and the Person

A Mimetic Critique of Science and Philosophy

Scientism always and everywhere assaults and attempts to bury the person. A mimetic account of how science lost sight of imitation — from Aristotle to the algorithm.

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Also by George Boreas

• The Anti-ManifestoYou Have Nothing to Lose but Your Idols
• The Psychedelic DelusionA Girardian Christian Critique
• The Modern MalaiseOf Frogs, Snowflakes and the Recession of the Sacred
• RecessionMillennial Short Stories
• CatharsesEssays in Applied Mimetic Theory
• The Woke IliadA comic epic of the culture war

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