The Scapegoat

By: Rene Girard, Yvonne Freccero (Translator)

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Paperback | 14 October 1989

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Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, Ren© Girard has pursued a powerful line of inquiry across the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. His theories, which the French press has termed "lhypoth¨se girardienne," have sparked interdisciplinary, even international, controversy. In The Scapegoat, Girard applies his approach to "texts of persecution," documents that recount phenomena of collective violence from the standpoint of the persecutordocuments such as the medieval poet Guillaume de Machauts Judgement of the King of Navarre, which blames the Jews for the Black Death and describes their mass murder.

Girard compares persecution texts with myths, most notably with the myth of Oedipus, and finds strikingly similar themes and structures. Could myths regularly conceal texts of persecution? Girards answers lies in a study of the Christian Passion, which represents the same central event, the same collective violence, found in all mythology, but which is read from the point of view of the innocent victim. The Passion text provides the model interpretation that has enabled Western culture to demystify its own violencea demystification Girard now extends to mythology.

Underlying Girards daring textual hypothesis is a powerful theory of history and culture. Christs rejection of all guilt breaks the mythic cycle of violence and the sacred. The scapegoat becomes the Lamb of God; "the foolish genesis of blood-stained idols and the false gods of superstition, politics, and ideologies" are revealed.

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""[Girards] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critics arsenal.""

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Fiction Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Religion Philosophy of Religion Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Christianity

Christian Theology

Guillaume de Machaut and the Jews	p. 1
Stereotypes of Persecution	p. 12
What Is a Myth?	p. 24
Violence and Magic	p. 45
Teotihuacan	p. 57
Ases, Curetes, and Titans	p. 66
The Crimes of the Gods	p. 76
The Science of Myths	p. 95
The Key Words of the Gospel Passion	p. 100
That Only One Man Should Die	p. 112
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist	p. 125
Peter's Denial	p. 149
The Demons of Gerasa	p. 165
Satan Divided against Himself	p. 184
History and the Paraclete	p. 198
Index	p. 213
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