The sacred monstrous : a reflection on violence in human communities

The sacred monstrous : a reflection on violence in human communities / Wendy C. Hamblet.

In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being; it pervades our generations and...

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Main Author: Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
Subjects:
Violence > Moral and ethical aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Violence > Moral and ethical aspects
Geweld.
Ethische aspecten.
Éthique.
Rite.
Violence.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ritual and mythical beginnings
  • Ritual in-form-ations : the anthropologists' theories
  • Resonances in ritual theory
  • Mythical traces of the legacy of violence under the shadow of the "fall"
  • Home-craft in the history of philosophy : "innocent egoist and alone"
  • The ambiguities of home : a phenomenology of identity-construction
  • Violence as community : the suffocating embrace of the home
  • Superstructures of identity
  • In the wake of violent rituals.

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