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The Scapegoat (Paperback)
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Widely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time,
Rene 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 "l'hypothese 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 persecutor-documents such as the medieval poet
Guillaume de Machaut's 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?
Girard's 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 violence-a demystification Girard now extends to mythology.
Underlying Girard's daring textual hypothesis is a powerful theory
of history and culture. Christ's 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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