3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
French-American writer who wrote The Soul of China, Rome and the United States, and Sex and Power in History — developing civilizational comparisons and arguing that American civilization parallels Rome at the moment of its transformation from republic to empire.
French-American astrophysicist and computer scientist who in the 1960s proposed the first computer database of UFO reports and developed the control system hypothesis — arguing that UFO phenomena are a real phenomenon but likely not extraterrestrial spacecraft, instead functioning as a control mechanism that shapes human consciousness and culture.
French literary critic and philosopher who developed mimetic theory — arguing that human desire is fundamentally imitative (we desire what others desire), that this creates rivalry and violence, that all cultures manage this violence through scapegoating, and that Christianity uniquely reveals and deconstructs the scapegoating mechanism.