Violence and the sacred / Rene Girard ; translated by Patrick Gregory.
By: Girard, René
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TextPublisher: 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.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL600 .G5413 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902373113 |
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| BL600 .F55 1973 Symbols, public and private / | BL600 .G36 1979 Freud on ritual : reconstruction and critique / | BL600 .G541 1993 Violence and the sacred / | BL600 .G5413 1979 Violence and the sacred / | BL600 .G74 1982 Beginnings in ritual studies / | BL600 .G745 2000 Deeply into the bone : re-inventing rites of passage / | BL600 .G76 1990 Ritual criticism : case studies in its practice, essays on its theory / |
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.