Violence and the Sacred

Informationen zum Autor René Girard is a Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel , which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred , are available from Johns Hopkins University Press. Zusammenfassung "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."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

Product details

• Authors: Ren? Girard, Rena(c) Girard, Rene Girard, René Girard, Rene (Stanford University) Girard
• Assisted by: Patrick Gregory (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.1979
• EAN: 9780801822186
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-2218-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sociology, Religion, allgemein, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Religion: general, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society