From the unjust murder of Abel by his brother Cain to the crucifixion of Christ, the Bible reveals the innocence of the victim. It is on this revelation that modern society unquietly rests. Girard's ideas have influenced social scientists over his long career as a writer and teacher. In these five programs Ideas writer-broadcaster David Cayley introduces this seminal thinker to a wider audience. Only after his death in 1936 was this fiercely independent thinker enshrined Mao Zedong as a revolutionary hero.
Chinese today experience their greatest modern author through the prism of ideology.
Charles Foran investigates. Alan Cassels provides some armor. Without it, we're Naked in the Pharmaceutical Marketplace. The camera may not lie, but it can produce very convincing fictions. The wedding photograph and the head shot are some of the ways our everyday world is defined through the frozen image.