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Book Description: STANFORD UNIV PR, 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780804722155

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Book Description: Stanford University Press June 1987, 1987. Paper Back. Book Condition: New. Girard expands his work on violence and the sacred to areas in fundamental anthropology and psychology, exploring the roles of victimage, persecution, sacrifice and murder in the development of religion, culture and institutions, desire, sexuality and psychoanalysis. He devotes a section in this book to the ''Judaeo-Christian Scriptures'' and their mythical similarities and distinctives to other ancient mythologies and conceptual frameworks. 469 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 20080814145898

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Book Description: Stanford University Press, United States, 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 229 x 154 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 itnerest 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 reader 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 o departure is what he calles "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. How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in "Totem and Taboo," that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud--if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but becaus ehuman beings "wanted" it. 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 violance has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780804722155

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Book Description: Stanford University Press 1987-06, 1987. Book Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely. Bookseller Inventory # NU-ING-00566099

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Book Description: 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 154mm x 26mm x 229mm. 480 pages. 0.640. Bookseller Inventory # 9780804722155

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Book Description: Stanford Univ Pr 1987-06-01, 1987. Book Condition: NEW. NEW PAPERBACK // Edition is: Reprint. // Condition: NEW. Binding/format is: Paperback. 9.00 H x 1.00 D x 6.00 W inches 1.35 lbs. Language: English. ISBN 9780804722155. Bookseller Inventory # 1807247

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Book Description: Stanford University Press, 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9 by 6 inches. (00480 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0804722153

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