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Violence and the Sacred

René Girard author Patrick Gregory translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Jan '79

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"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.'

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

ISBN: 9780801822186

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 476g

352 pages