The Scapegoat (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Franska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
1989-09-01
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Översättare
Yvonne Freccero
Originalspråk
French
Illustrationer
No
Dimensioner
229 x 150 x 15 mm
Vikt
360 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780801839177

The Scapegoat

av Ren Girard
Häftad,  Franska, 1989-09-01
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Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Rene Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed "l'hypothese girardienne," have sparked interdisciplinary, even international, controversy. In The Scapegoat, Girard applies his approach to "texts of persecution," documents that recount phenomena of collective violence from the standpoint of the persecutor-documents such as the medieval poet Guillaume de Machaut's Judgement of the King of Navarre, which blames the Jews for the Black Death and describes their mass murder. Girard compares persecution texts with myths, most notably with the myth of Oedipus, and finds strikingly similar themes and structures. Could myths regularly conceal texts of persecution? Girard's answers lies in a study of the Christian Passion, which represents the same central event, the same collective violence, found in all mythology, but which is read from the point of view of the innocent victim. The Passion text provides the model interpretation that has enabled Western culture to demystify its own violence-a demystification Girard now extends to mythology. Underlying Girard's daring textual hypothesis is a powerful theory of history and culture. Christ's rejection of all guilt breaks the mythic cycle of violence and the sacred. The scapegoat becomes the Lamb of God; "the foolish genesis of blood-stained idols and the false gods of superstition, politics, and ideologies" are revealed.
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[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 [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

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Rene Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Guillaume de Machaut and the Jews Chapter 2. Stereotypes of Persecution Chapter 3. What is a Myth? Chapter 4. Violence and Magic Chapter 5. Teotihuacan Chapter 6. Ases, Curets, and Titans Chapter 7. The Crime of the Gods Chapter 8. The Science of Myths Chapter 9. The Key Words of the Gospel Passion Chapter 10. That Only One Man Should Die Chapter 11. The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Chapter 12. Peter's Denial Chapter 13. The Demons of Gerasa Chapter 14. Satan Divided Against Himself Chapter 15. History and the Paraclete Index

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