One of this man's works considers "Proust's Conversion" in the section "Beyond Scandal."  One of this man's works recounts a narrative by Philostratus in which the Ephesians stone a man for being a "plague demon", thus illustrating the power of contagion in polarizing groups; that section, "The Horrible Miracle of Apollonius of Tyana", appears in this man's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. One of his works considers Peter's denial of Jesus as a skandalon, and discusses the victimage mechanism of archaic religions and the process of hominization in its first section. That work also considers "The Double Semantic Sense of the Word 'Scapegoat'",
One of this man's works considers "Proust's Conversion" in the section "Beyond Scandal."  One of this man's works recounts a narrative by Philostratus in which the Ephesians stone a man for being a "plague demon", thus illustrating the power of contagion in polarizing groups; that section, "The Horrible Miracle of Apollonius of Tyana", appears in this man's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. One of his works considers Peter's denial of Jesus as a skandalon, and discusses the victimage mechanism of archaic religions and the process of hominization in its first section. That work also considers "The Double Semantic Sense of the Word 'Scapegoat'", and he argued that subsequent to conflict arising from a mutual pursuit of objects, violent competition morphs into an antagonism directed against a single person. For 10 points, name this French philosopher of anthropology, who elucidated his theory of mimetic desire in works such as Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and The Violence and the Sacred.
One of this man's works considers "Proust's Conversion" in the section "Beyond Scandal."  
{René Girard}