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Scapegoat

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Scapegoat
14.99 €
René Girard (1923-2015) was a French philosopher and the creator of an original, comprehensive theory of the origins of religion and culture. He became famous for his book Violence and the Sacred (1972), but it was only in The Scapegoat (1982) that Girard’s theory was presented in its entirety. Using texts about the medieval persecution of Jews as an example, the philosopher introduces the concept of “persecution texts” – texts composed by the persecutors themselves, but against their will revealing the truth about the innocence of the victim – and shows that all mythologies of the world are precisely such texts. Girard’s main thesis, which first caused a wave of indignation in the intellectual world and then gained many supporters, is that people learned to decipher these texts only thanks to the Gospel Revelation. According to Girard, the liberating and at the same time destructive effect of this revelation continues to this day – and this book serves as one of its tools.
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