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Violence and the Sacred

By René Girard , Patrick Gregory

Book information

Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1979
ISBN
0801822181, 9780801822186
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22278903 bytes)
Pages
352\342
Time added
2013-05-28 08:41:58

Description

"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.&#039

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