Violence and the Sacred
Book Details
Author(s)
René Girard
Publisher
W.W.Norton & Company
ISBN / ASIN
0801822181
ISBN-13
9780801822186
Category
Social Science
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
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.
