Things hidden since the foundation of the world
René Girard, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Guy Lefort, Stephen Bann (Translator), Michael Leigh Metteer (Translator), Stanford University Press
Print Book, English, [2002]
English-language ed View all formats and editions
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., [2002]
469 pages ; 23 cm
9780804722155, 0804722153
1120074410
The victimage mechanism as the basis of religion
The development of culture and institutions
The process of hominization
Myth : the invisibility of the founding murder
Texts of persecution
Things hidden since the foundation of the world
A non-sacrificial reading of the Gospel text
The sacrificial reading and historical Christianity
The Logos of Heraclitus and the Logos of John
Mimetic desire
Desire without object
Mimesis and sexuality
Psychoanalytic mythology
Beyond scandal
To conclude
Translation of: Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde
Copyright date 1987
Translated from the French