Dimensions
156 x 234 x 24mm
Part of the 'Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers' series.
The magnum opus of a great cultural critic.
This book presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Rene Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. Girard's vision is a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis.
Book I: Fundamental Anthropology
- The Victimage Mechanism as the Basis of Religion
- The Development of Culture and Institutions
- The Process of Hominization
- Myth: The Invisibility of the Founding Murder
- Texts of Persecution
Book II:
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- A Non-Sacrificial Reading of the Gospel Text
- The Sacrificial Reading and Historical Christianity
- The Logos of Heraclitus and the Logos of John
Book III:
- Mimetic Desire
- Desire without Object
- Mimesis and Sexuality
- Psycho-analytic Mythology
- Beyond Scandal
- To conclude
