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Violence and the sacred / Rene Girard ; translated by Patrick Gregory.

By: Girard, René, 1923-2015
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979Copyright date: ©1977Edition: First Johns Hopkins paperback editionDescription: vii, 333 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0801822181 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Violence et le sacré. English Subject(s): Rites and ceremonies | SacrificeBibliography, Etc. Note: Bibliography: pages 319-323.
Contents:
Sacrifice -- The sacrificial crisis -- Oedipus and the surrogate victim -- The origins of myth and ritual -- Dionysus -- From mimetic desire to the monstrous double -- Freud and the Oedipus complex -- Totem and taboo and the incest prohibition -- Lévi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws -- The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution -- The unity of all rites.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL600 .G5413 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902373113

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

Bibliography: pages 319-323.

Includes index.

Sacrifice -- The sacrificial crisis -- Oedipus and the surrogate victim -- The origins of myth and ritual -- Dionysus -- From mimetic desire to the monstrous double -- Freud and the Oedipus complex -- Totem and taboo and the incest prohibition -- Lévi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws -- The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution -- The unity of all rites.

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