Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Ren??? 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.
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Ren??? 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.
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New. Girard expands his work on violence and the sacred to areas in fundamental anthropology and psychology, exploring the roles of victimage, persecution, sacrifice and murder in the development of religion, culture and institutions, desire, sexuality and psychoanalysis. He devotes a section in this book to the ''Judaeo-Christian Scriptures'' and their mythical similarities and distinctives to other ancient mythologies and conceptual frameworks. 469 pp.
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