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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Dr René Girard author Stephen Bann translator Michael Metteer translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:25th Feb '16

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René Girard's landmark study of religion and culture, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard’s vision is a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Rene Girard's work is both a rationally articulated study and a prophetic vision of the hidden origins of culture and the nature of cultural processes. In its enormous, breathtaking scope it suggests the projects of those nineteenth century intellectual giants (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud) who still cast long shadows today. By contrast, contemporary criticism seems paltry and faint-hearted. * Comparative Literature *
[A] highly readable talent for analyzing and deconstructing myth... original and provocative. * Sunday Times *
One of the most striking theories of human culture ever presented. * Christianity and Literature *

ISBN: 9781474268431

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 636g

464 pages