Video lecture:
"The History of Human Desire" (December 4, 2010)

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

• "Nonviolent Cognition of God with Artificial Intelligence in Computational Metaphysics", in Thomas Ryba and Sandor Goodhart (eds.), Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Desiring Machines in Fiction, Film and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, Jul 10 2025), Chapter 32. ISBN 9781350382732


• "The Pragmatic Basis of Logic: Existential Graphs for Excavation of Sacrifice in Narrative", in Farouk Y. Seif (ed.), Semiotics 2022: Intentionality and Semiotic Labyrinths (Semiotic Society of America, 2023), 205-213. https://doi.org/10.5840/cpsem202215


• "'The Cloven Hoof under the Cassock': Sacrifice Hidden in the Hebrew Bible and Roger Scruton",
  Perspectives on Political Science 52.2 (2023): 66-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2023.2183023
  


• "Subversions of Exclusions: A Commentary on Esther", in Semiotics 2019: New Frontiers of Semiotics (Semiotic Society of America, 2021), 67-78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201910
  


• "Thoughts on 'Hellbound?' as a Way of Life", in Kevin Miller (ed.), Hellrazed? (Kevin Miller XI Productions Inc., 2017), 115-122.
  


• "On Finding Beauty and Truth in René Girard",
  in James Bryson (ed.), The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton
  (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), 99-110. [Published: 28 Jan 2016]
  


• "Natural Law and Scapegoating",
  in Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions:
  A Journal of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies 10 (2014): 185-201. [Published: 2016]
  


• "Deferral of War: The Religious Sign System of Ritual Violence", in Gabriel R. Ricci (ed.), Faith, War, and Violence.
  Religion and Public Life, Volume 39 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2014), 133–147. ISBN 978-1412854993.
  


• "Casting Out Satan With Satan: A Review of 300: Rise of an Empire", Catholic World Report (March 10, 2014).
  


• "Greeks and gladiators battle Gospel at box office", The B.C. Catholic (March 17, 2014), 7 and 13. [HTML]
  


• "A Model for the Many Senses of Scripture: From the Literal to the Spiritual in Genesis 22 with Thomas Aquinas",
  Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19 (2012): 231–248. ISSN 1075-7201.
  [PDF Copyright © 2012 by Michigan State University. This article originally appeared in Contagion Vol. 19, 2012, pages 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.
  


• "'Pomo Homer': A Review of the Troy Movie",
  Chronicles of Love and Resentment 304 (June 26, 2004): <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw304.htm>.


• "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.