The Scapegoat by René Girard,Yvonne Freccero

By René Girard,Yvonne Freccero

Girard, professor of French language, literature, and civilization at Stanford, builds on his awesome prior anthropological and literary examinations of delusion and formality in human society. the following he applies his value determinations of Freud and Levi-Strauss to illustrate how faith services to maintain violence open air society through deflecting it onto a scapegoat whose sacrifice restores the social order. utilizing a wealthy number of assets from Greek to biblical, primitive to trendy, he cites the Gospel ardour as a fantasy with the facility to wreck the evil of collective violence and the company homicide it conceals. Girard's use of structuralism to research biblical texts will stir a lot dialogue, and the ebook as a complete is sure to be thought of provocative by way of specialists

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