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Violence and the Sacred
by Girard, Professor René
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0801819636
- ISBN 13
- 9780801819636
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-167: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Good+. 1977. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 1977. 352 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text has notes and marks present to the text block. Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred EB; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.0 inches; 352 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62258
- Title
- Violence and the Sacred
- Author
- Girard, Professor René
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0801819636
- ISBN 13
- 9780801819636
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- E-167
- Date Published
- 1977
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