Forum Philosophicum
Volume 24 number 1 Spring 2019
FORUM PHILOSOPHICUM is a scholarly journal dedicated to philosophical inquiries into
vari-ous respects of the relationship between philosophy and faith. It is published bi-annually in English by Ignatianum University Press, part of the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. The journal exists in both paper and electronic versions. The online version is available via the EBSCO Academic Search Complete electronic database (since vol. 6, 2001) and the Philosophy Documentation Center online subscription service (since vol. 1, 1996). Since vol. 23, 2018, all articles are published in full open-access model based on Creative Commons Attribution (BY) license. Selected earlier articles are published in open access on the journal’s website. Editorial Board
Bogumił Strączek, Editor-in-Chief
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland Jakub Pruś, Secretary and Associate Editor
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland Szczepan Urbaniak SJ, Associate Editor for Phenomenology
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
Marcin Podbielski, Associate Editor for Ancient and Patristic Philosophy Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland
Carl Humphries, Language Editor
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland Férdia Stone-Davis, Language Editor
Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK Magdalena Jankosz, Auxiliary Editor
Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Rev. Mark Sultana, Auxiliary Editor
University of Malta, Faculty of Theology, Malta
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The journal is funded by the competition „Support for Scientific Journals 2019–2020” organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland (8/WCN/2019/1)
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Forum Philosophicum
International Journal for Philosophy
Volume 24 number 1 Spring 2019
Thinking with René Girard
Articles
Mathias Moosbrugger
Historian in Disguise: On Derrida, Durkheim and the Intellectual Ambition
of René Girard 5
Colby Dickinson
Polarized Readings of René Girard: Utilizing Girardian Thought to Break
a Theological and Philosophical Impasse 25
Andrew O’Shea
Memory, Origins, and the Searching Quest in Girard’s Mimetic Cycle:
An Arendtian Perspective 43
Andreas Wilmes
Demystifying the Negative: René Girard’s Critique of the “Humanization
of Nothingness” 91
Tania Checchi
Myth and “il y a”: A Convergent Reading of René Girard and Emmanuel Levinas 127
Pierpaolo Antonello
Sacrificing “Homo Sacer”: René Girard reads Giorgio Agamben 145
John Ranieri
The Quranic Jesus: Prophet and Scapegoat 183
Book Reviews
Emanuele Antonelli
Mark R. Anspach. Vengeance in Reverse. The Tangled Loops in Violence,
Myth, and Madness 221
Piotr Ufnal
Brian Besong. An Introduction to Ethics. A Natural Law Approach 225
