"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.'

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

A profound reconsideration of how Blanchot work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life with the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.

A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in ...(展开全部)

微依那·达斯（Veena Das） 美国约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学系主任。她的研究方向包括：女权运动、性别研究、宗派暴力、医学人类学、后殖民主义与后结构主义理论等。达斯的处女作《印度种姓和仪式面面观》（Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual，牛 津大学出版社1977年版），探讨了印度种姓制度结构的组成。1995年，达斯获得了瑞士人类学—地理学年会奖章。2000年，她被芝加哥大学聘为名誉教授。 此后，她的研究兴趣转向暴力和社会苦难问题，与哈佛大学的凯博文（Arthur Kleinman）教授等人一起合编了《社会苦难》（Social Suffering，加州大学出版社1998年版）及《暴力与主体性》（Violence and Subjectivity，加州大学出版社2000年版）等书，她本人的专著《重大事件——当代印度分析之人类...(展开全部)

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, ...(展开全部)

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。