Violence and the Sacred
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Author(s)René Girard
PublisherW.W.Norton & Company
ISBN / ASIN0801822181
ISBN-139780801822186
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank100,309
CategorySocial Science
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.
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