Author: Rene Girard
Publisher: Gracewing
Keywords: satan
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852442904
ISBN-13: 9780852442906

Author: Rene Girard
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: lightning, satan
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2001-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1570753199
ISBN-13: 9781570753190

Author: Rene Girard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: world, foundation, hidden, things
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1987-06-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0804722153
ISBN-13: 9780804722155

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 Gu

Author: René Girard
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: sacred, violence
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1979-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0801822181
ISBN-13: 9780801822186

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul’ of the sacred. Girard’s fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, ’Chronicle of Higher Education.’

Author: René Girard
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: scapegoat
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1989-08-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0801839173
ISBN-13: 9780801839177

"[Girard’s] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic’s arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.

Author: René Girard
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: structure, literary, novel, desire, deceit
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1976-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801818303
ISBN-13: 9780801818301

Author: Rene Girard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: people, victim, job
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1987-11-01
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0804714045
ISBN-13: 9780804714044