[Académie Française 04] • De La Violence À La Divinité

[Académie Française 04] • De La Violence À La Divinité
Authors
Girard, René
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Tags
littérature française , philosophy , religion , history , psychology
ISBN
9780801822186
Date
1972-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.51 MB
Lang
fr
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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.