Sacred Violence: Girard, Bataille and the Vicissitudes of Human Desire

The article deals with two famous attempts to analyse the relationship between affective violence and the sacred, namely those made by René Girard and Georges Bataille. Despite the apparent similarities of the problems (religious sacrifice as the affective foundation of community and the primordial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arppe, Tiina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2009
In: Distinktion
Year: 2009, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 31-58
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Desire / Violence / Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Economy
B Desire
B Violence
B Negativity
B Death
B Sacred
B Sacrifice
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)