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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard’s vision is a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 25/02/2016
    ISBN13: 9781474268431, 978-1474268431
    ISBN10: 1474268439

    Number of Pages: 464

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard’s vision is a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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