Violence and the Sacred by René Girard, ISBN-13: 978-0801822186

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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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