Translation of La violence et le sacré.

"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.'

"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.

在这本富有挑战性的书中，当代著名政治哲学家约翰•基恩呼吁重新认识民主与暴力之间的复杂关系。基恩探讨了处于争议中的暴力概念，提出并回答了如下一些主要问题：为何说暴力是民主最大的敌人？为什么今天全球性的“暴力三角”正在诱使政治家动用不民主的紧急权力？暴力能否“民主化”以及如何“民主化”？自始至终，基恩优先考虑伦理问题，提出并阐述了清除过剩暴力的十条规则。

The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, "Social Suffering", which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventur...(展开全部)