The ScapegoatWidely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Ren Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed l'hypothse girardienne, have sparked interdisciplinary, even international, controversy. In The Scapegoat, Girard applies his approach to texts of persecution, documents that recount phenomena of collective violence from the