Name: A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (en Inglés)
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Author: James Bernard Murphy
ISBN: 9781845199289

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A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Sussex Academic Press

Autor

James Bernard Murphy

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Inglés

N° páginas

160

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781845199289

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Psicología

A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (en Inglés)

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Why are religious rituals, symbols, and rhetoric so full of images of blood, sacrifice, and death? Why does religious fervor so often lead to Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad? No wonder many people assume that religion tends to give rise to violence. But what if it were the other way around? What if violence actually gave rise to religion? So argued the French literary theorist and anthropologist Rene Girard (1923-2015). Described as the "Darwin of the human sciences," he was elected to the French Academy in 2005 for his seminal theories of sacred violence. Girard argued that religious practices function to sublimate, regulate, and discharge human violence in controlled rituals. Political philosopher James Bernard Murphy presents here a series of sharp and witty dialogues in which Girard attempts to defend his ideas against attacks by rival theorists, among them, Sigmund Freud, William James, Simone Weil, Elias Canetti, and Joseph de Maistre. Whatever we might think of his answers, Girard asks challenging, unsettling questions. In these illuminating and lively exchanges, Girard squares off with the titans of social theory.