This perhaps the best book by an eminent French philosopher has become a powerful challenge to conventional views on literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Ugurlian and Guy Lefort), Girard, with polemical courage and striking erudition, touches on an encyclopedic range of issues, including the entire spectrum of modern anthropology, psychoanalysis and cultural development. Series "Philosophy and Theology" . This series publishes books written by leading contemporary authors, in which the problems of the interaction of philosophy and religion are considered from a historical and theoretical perspective.