"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'
- ISBN10 0801819636
- ISBN13 9780801819636
- Publish Date 1 October 1977
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English