Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
by RENE GIRARD
- New
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0804722153
- ISBN 13
- 9780804722155
- Seller
-
Wichita, Kansas, United States
4 Copies Available from This Seller
(You can add more at checkout.)
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Stanford University Press, June 1987. Paper Back. New. Girard expands his work on violence and the sacred to areas in fundamental anthropology and psychology, exploring the roles of victimage, persecution, sacrifice and murder in the development of religion, culture and institutions, desire, sexuality and psychoanalysis. He devotes a section in this book to the ''Judaeo-Christian Scriptures'' and their mythical similarities and distinctives to other ancient mythologies and conceptual frameworks. 469 pp.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Eighth Day Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7979
- Title
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Author
- RENE GIRARD
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0804722153
- ISBN 13
- 9780804722155
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, Ca
- Date Published
- June 1987
- Pages
- 480
- Keywords
- mythology, myths, scriptures, violence, sacrifice, anthropology, victimhood, victims, persecution, comparative religion
Terms of Sale
Eighth Day Books
Returns accepted for full refund if not as described.
About the Seller
Eighth Day Books
Biblio member since 2007
Wichita, Kansas
About Eighth Day Books
Eighth Day Books offers an eccentric community of books based on this organizing principle: if a book - be it literary, scientific, historical, or theological - sheds light on ultimate questions in an excellent way, then it's a worthy candidate for inclusion in our catalog.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...