Violence and the Sacred
René Girard author Patrick Gregory translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:1st Jan '79
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
"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