Violence and the Sacred by René Girard, ISBN-13: 978-0801822186
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- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1979)
- Language: English
- 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780801822186
- ISBN-13: 978-0801822186
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
One Sacrifice 1
Two The Sacrificial Crisis 39
Three Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim 68
Four The Origins of Myth and Ritual 89
Five Dionysus 119
Six From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double 143
Seven Freud and the Oedipus Complex 169
Eight Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition 193
Nine Levi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage Laws 223
Ten The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial
Substitution 250
Eleven The Unity of All Rites 214
Conclusion 309
Bibliography 319
Index 32 5
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