Violence and the Sacred
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In this influential work, René Girard, a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher, develops his theory of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism. He argues that human violence originates from mimetic rivalry and that archaic societies found a way to control this violence through ritual sacrifice and the institution of the scapegoat, which eventually led to the emergence of the sacred and social order.
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René Girard
Violence and the Sacred
mimetic desire
scapegoat theory
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