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Title: Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard, Patrick Gregory ISBN: 0-8018-2218-1 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No One but Girard
Comment: No one but Rene Girard could touch upon the deepest human drive and emotion as Girard does. This work is possibly his greatest thus far and is certainly destined to be a classic. The book is of imeasurable value to anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and theologans all at the same time. I highly recommend this book to anyone that seeks to understand this imporant aspect of human nature.
Rating: 5
Summary: A stunning defense of cultural order against violence.
Comment: Those who read contemporary French criticism will understand where Kristeva and others culled their best insights. Girard shows how violence both generates and destroys cultural order. Religious attempts to curtail violence, and modern secularists remain more ignorant than ever of the "virus" of violence, which they displace onto the secondary realm of sexuality. Girard is most brilliant when revealing how myths occlude persecution, scapegoating, and surrogate victimization. Essential reading for feminists as Girard indirectly reveals that women (via Freud) have become the surrogate victims du jour of man's power to evade confronation with his own violence.
Rating: 5
Summary: lucid and insightful -- an enlightening read
Comment: This book was an unexpected pleasure. Mythology and cultural anthropology have always been of interest to me, but Girard's scintillating and illuminating ideas, in my opinion, blast through the ubiquitious shadows which cling to and obscure our broader vision. I loved it -- not because of the often revolting realities of human nature which it illuminates, but because of it's unswerving quest for truth. Great!
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Title: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard, Michael Metteer, Stephen Bann ISBN: 0804722153 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Scapegoat by Rene Girard, Yvonne Freccero ISBN: 0801839173 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Girard Reader by Rene Girard, James G. Williams, James Wiliams ISBN: 0824516346 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Violent Origins: Walter Burkett, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, Renato Rosaldo ISBN: 0804715181 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard, James G. Williams ISBN: 1570753199 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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