Video lecture:
"The History of Human Desire"

Writings by C. S. Morrissey on Mimetic Theory (and Generative Anthropology)

• "A Model for the Many Senses of Scripture", Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19 (2012): 231–248.
  


• "Aristotle's 'Natural Slaves' and Colossae's Unnatural 'Scythians': A Generative Exegesis of Colossians 3:11", in Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart (eds.), Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Volume 18 (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), 410–423. ISBN 0268020388. [UND Press]
  


• "Benedict's preacher deserves better", The B.C. Catholic (Apr 12, 2010), 8. [PDF]
  


• "Blessings and blood", Review of Bruce Chilton, Abraham’s Curse, in The Globe and Mail: Books (Feb 23, 2008), D8. [HTML].
  


• "René Girard's Accusation: Intellectuals are the Castrators of Meaning", An interview of René Girard with Giulio Meotti in Il Foglio (March 20, 2007); Translation by Paul N. Faraone and Christopher S. Morrissey in Modern Age (Spring 2008): 180-185. [HTML]
  


• "Original Sin and Generative Anthropology", Anthropoetics 13.2 (2007). <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1302/1302morrissey.htm>. ISSN 1083-7264.
  


• "The Epigenetic Evolution of the Immaterial Intellect on the Originary Scene", in Adam Katz (ed.) The Originary Hypothesis: a Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry, Critical Series in the Humanities (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group, 2007), 75–99. ISBN 978-1-888570-36-6.
  


• "Sparagmos! A Dialogue on Girard and Gans", Anthropoetics 11.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1101/sparagmos.htm>. ISSN 1083-7264.
  


• "Aristotle, Derrida, Girard", Humanitas: Bulletin of the Institute for the Humanities 3 (Spring 2004), 49-50.
  


• "Oedipus the Cliché: Aristotle on Tragic Form and Content", Anthropoetics 9.1 (Spring/Summer 2003): 1-14.
  <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0901/oedipus.htm>. ISSN 1083-7264.
  


• "Reading Mimesis Against Revenge: Girard and Mimetic Violence", West Coast Line 37.1 (Spring 2003): 55-66. ISSN 1182-4271.