Violence And The Sacred

Download or read book Violence and the Sacred written by René Girard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.