New Book by Paul Gifford on Girard and Violence

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Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of 'sacred violence'? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene Girard has in fact decoded the obscurely 'foundational' complicity between violence and the sacred.

Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor Emeritus of the University of St Andrews. He worked with Rene Girard as Invited Scholar at Stanford University. He has co-edited two collections of Girardian essays published by Michigan State University Press: Can We Survive Our Origins? (2015) and How We Became Human (2015).