Peace in Times of War: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Complemented by Gandhi’s Ethics of Nonviolence

Wolfgang Palaver

doi:10.18290/rkult22132.6

Wolfgang Palaver Uniwersytet w Innsbrucku, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9879-6569

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult22132.6

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