Abstract

Preparing well in advance for the sesquicentennial of Origin of the Species, David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber proposed the term “Darwinian research tradition” to identify faithful, revisionary, and resistant work taking its cue from Darwin. There is now a full-fledged Girardian research tradition, which our successive surveys of research across the languages are mapping for us. In this issue we thank Wolfgang Palaver and Dietmar Regensburger of Innsbruck University, Andreas Hetzel of the universities of Darmstadt and Innsbruck, and Gabriel Borrud, their translator, for surveying work in German. I am very happy to include here the Raymund Schwager Memorial Lecture from COV&R Tokyo 2012, given by Richard ..