Luke Burgis

The author holds a chair in "Principled Entrepreneurship" at the private Catholic University of America. The author writes fluently about business, theology, philosophy, religion, spirituality, high culture and pop culture. The author writes accessibly for university students and literate businesspersons. The book is framed as an introduction the thought of the late Rene Girard. Girard was intially a student and teacher of history and became a student and teacher of literature, and ultimately a teacher of philosophical anthropology. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anthropology). The book tries to explain Girard, apply Girard's thoughts on mimetic desire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory) to modern businesspersons and teach meditation and spirituality to business persons. The author explains mimetic desire and attempts to differentiate between exploiting the irrational mimesis of consumer and followers and transcending mimesis by meditation, "discernment" of real and significant "thick" desires, and by spiritual practices. A reasonable discussion of mimetic theory in the context of making a career as a business leader, and an interesting verbal juggling act.… (mer)