The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion

What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Ren Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628925965
• ISBN13: 9781628925968
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"