The Truth of Mankind: Reflections on Girardian Theory - Hardcoverby Ces? reo Bandera (Author) The Truth of Mankind draws on Ces? reo Bandera's long lifetime of critical experience and literary scholarship. Bandera is not only a celebrated and distinguished interpreter of Latin and Greek literature, of Cervantes and Calder? n, and many other seminal figures, but was also a friend and colleague of the late Ren? Girard, the celebrated Catholic theorist of the "scapegoat mechanism" as the fundamental logic underlying