A review by ralowe
Violence and the Sacred by René Girard

2.0

on the question of competing structuralisms, your mileage may vary solely contingent upon whether you think his notions operate absent the colonial misogyny and racism. rene girard is very reassured of the uber-comprehensiveness of his system compared to freud, his rival oedipal brother dead meat. other than that this is something to help prop up the argument on the essential violence of the social. if the system of valuation is violent then certainly the sacred is also. this text works well with agamben, it's just super boring to read. I don' t know if it's the translation or the original prose. I wanted to climb out of my face.