Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Couverture rigide

Girard, Rene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804714037 ISBN 13 : 9780804714037

Editeur : Stanford Univ Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Girard Rene

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Rene Girard's work is both a rationally articulated study and a prophetic vision of the hidden origins of culture and the nature of cultural processes. In its enormous, breathtaking scope it suggests the projects of those nineteenth century intellectual giants (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud) who still cast long shadows today. By contrast, contemporary criticism seems paltry and faint-hearted. --Comparative Literature

[A] highly readable talent for analyzing and deconstructing myth... original and provocative. --Sunday Times

One of the most striking theories of human culture ever presented. --Christianity and Literature

Présentation de l'éditeur

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girards vision is a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804714037
• ISBN 13: 9780804714037
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible