Luke Burgis

Luke Burgis is the founder of multiple companies. He's currently entrepreneur-in-residence and director of programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America, where he also teaches business and develops new education initiatives. He's also the founder and director of Fourth Wall Ventures, an incubator for people and companies that contribute to the formation of a healthy human ecology. He graduated from NYU Stern School of Business and later from a pontifical university in Rome, where he studied theology.

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

As a devoted reader of literature, philosophy, and religious studies, Luke Burgis channels his unique background into a work on one of human nature’s most elusive tendencies. With the insights of the French historian, philosopher, and thinker extraordinaire René Girard, Burgis tackles the puzzle of desire and develops a response that’s encouraging, illuminating, and altogether startling.


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