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Violence and the Sacred
Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
Book Details
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1979
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.98in - 5.87in - 0.85in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780801822186
- Categories: • Customs & Traditions• Biblical Studies - History & Culture• Violence in Society
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About the Author
René Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and The Scapegoat, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Desiderio desideravi. Author of Wanting: https://t.co/taHen5QrVN The Anti-Mimetic Newsletter: https://t.co/eNQyQJYNbz
“Nothing resembles an angry cat or man as much as another angry cat or man.” — René Girard, referencing Anthony Storr in the earliest pages of Violence and the Sacred https://t.co/KNZPWUKFlz
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“When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch, the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.” ― René Girard, Violence and the Sacred
Perpetuating the timeless and universal wisdom of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as a teacher of Torah, a leader of leaders and a moral voice.
Covenant & Conversation: This week’s piece for Parshat #Tzav, entitled “Violence and the Sacred” is based on a chapter in Rabbi Sacks’ book Essays in Ethics. Read or listen to it at https://t.co/YUjls6MREY https://t.co/vShgJggGSW
Praise for this book
His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.
--Victor Brombert "Chronicle of Higher Education"This brilliant study of human evil, first published in France to critical acclaim, demands comparison with Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil, as well as with Eli Sagan's Cannibalism: Human Aggression and Cultural Form. . . . This is a major study in the anthropology of religion, Greek literature, and the human psyche
-- "Choice"I regard his book as crucial reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of society and culture. He presents the best case I have seen for the promacy of social order.
--Victor TurnerWhat people are saying
Desiderio desideravi. Author of Wanting: https://t.co/taHen5QrVN The Anti-Mimetic Newsletter: https://t.co/eNQyQJYNbz
“Nothing resembles an angry cat or man as much as another angry cat or man.” — René Girard, referencing Anthony Storr in the earliest pages of Violence and the Sacred https://t.co/KNZPWUKFlz