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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to respond, one way or another.

This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production.

Girard's point of departure is what he calls mimesis, the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the scapegoating mechanism, in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order

The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history. the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1978, 1987 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle; translation copyright by The Athlone Press (P)


Författare:

  • René Girard

Uppläsare:

  • Mike Fraser

Format:

  • Ljudbok

Längd:

  • 21 tim 25 min

Språk:

Engelska

Kategorier:

  • Kultur
  • Litteraturvetenskap
  • Religion och tro
  • Kristendom
  • Samhälle och politik
  • Filosofi och idéhistoria

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