"The question about our world is not really why so much violence, but why so little? Why are we not always at each other’s throats?” In 1997, the philosopher René Girard asked provocative questions in his compelling D'Arcy Lecture. Delivered annually at Campion Hall, Oxford since 1976, the lectures are in honour of Martin D’Arcy, SJ, the British philosopher who is perhaps the only Jesuit to have been published by TS Eliot (The Mind and the Heart of Love, 1945). D’Arcy’s literary and artistic interests have been well-represented by his titular lecturers, among them Girard (one of the only non-Jesuits), Joseph Fitzmyer and Avery Dulles.