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Violent Origins

Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation [Paperback]

by Rene Girard, Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Walter Burkert

    • Authors

      Rene Girard +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      November 1988

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      Product Description

      Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such--the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver. Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a "jeu d'esprit, " that sacrifice originates with the domestication of animals.

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      • Authors

        Rene Girard +1

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Stanford University Press

      • Published

        November 1988

      • Weight

        386g

      • Page Count

        292

      • Dimensions

        142 x 211 x 20 mm

      • ISBN

        9780804715188

      • ISBN-10

        0804715181

      • Eden Code

        1159564

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      • ISBN: 9780804715188

      • Publisher: Stanford University Press

      • Release Date: November 1988

      • Weight: 386g

      • Dimensions: 142 x 211 x 20 mm

      • Eden Code: 1159564

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