Violence and the sacred
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Violence and the sacred
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1977
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La violence et le sacré
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Originally published as La violence et le sacré: Paris : Grasset, 1972
Bibliography: p. 319-323
Includes index
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ISBN 9780801819636
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This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801822186
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"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.'
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Sacrifice
Chapter 2. The Sacrificial Crisis
Chapter 3. Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim
Chapter 4. The Origins of Myth and Ritual
Chapter 5. Dionysus
Chapter 6. From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double
Chapter 7. Freud and the Oedipus Comples
Chapter 8. Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition
Chapter 9. Levi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage Laws
Chapter 10. The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial Substitution
Chapter 11. The Unity of All Rites
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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