Blasphemy - Impious Speech in West From Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century

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Summary

The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Cabantous
• Assisted by: Eric Rauth (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2001
• EAN: 9780231118767
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11876-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Serie; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous