Violence and the Sacred (Impacts)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0826477186
ISBN 13
9780826477187
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Publication Year
2005
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Pages
362
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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 - from Amzon
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