Violence and the Sacred
by Girard, RenéEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-13
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995.Violence and the Sacred is Girard's brilliant study of human evil. 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.Translated by Patrick Gregory>
Author Biography
Rene Girard was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University from 1981 until his retirement in 1995.
Table of Contents
| Sacrifice | p. 1 |
| The sacrificial crisis | p. 41 |
| Oedipus and the surrogate victim | p. 72 |
| The origins of myth and ritual | p. 94 |
| Dionysus | p. 127 |
| From mimetic desire to the monstrous double | p. 152 |
| Freud and the Oedipus complex | p. 179 |
| Totem and Taboo and the incest prohibition | p. 204 |
| Levi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws | p. 235 |
| The Gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution | p. 264 |
| The unity of all rites | p. 289 |
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