Violence, Desire, And The Sacred, Volume 2: Ren... «Fast – 2025»

The volume bridges the gap between Girard’s intuitive anthropology and the empirical findings of history and sociology, testing whether his theories hold up under the weight of historical data.

The contributors to this volume don’t just echo Girard; they challenge and expand his work. They ask whether the "revelation" of the scapegoat mechanism—the Christian insight that the victim is innocent—has truly freed us from violence, or if it has simply made our conflicts more desperate as we lose the ancient tools used to end them. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2: Ren...

How modern societies, despite their claims of secularism, still rely on Girardian "sacred" structures to contain internal conflict. The volume bridges the gap between Girard’s intuitive