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>Girard, there's no ethics, there's no metaphysics, and there isn't a sense of an argument as to why other competing drives are less influential.
Picrel was written by Girard's last grad student as well as his God-son. Girard's ethics and metaphysics are Catholic through and through; his entire system culminates in the true sacrifice of Jesus for mankind and his analysis is how the Christian stories from the Old and New Testament align with scapegoats whereas pagan models did not. To deny him ethics or metaphysics is merely to not understand that he is free of needing to invent or define them as the Church does so on his behalf. Mostly, he takes the idea the desire and imitation are linked and then just follows those logical consequences to contagion, scapegoating, and mimetic crisis. These ideas are not only all correct but played out repeatedly. Ultimately, I recommend Bataille's Accursed Share I and Eroticism to pair with Girard but this is strictly because it explains how excess defines us more than scarcity. Part of the issue is people read Gurard as a philosopher that didn't revert to the Faith after his studies--he did and it was central to his own intellectual worldview.