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Flesh Becomes Word: A Lexicography of the Scapegoat or, the History of an Idea (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture) - Softcover
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When he wrote, Girard didn't have at his disposal the necessary data to fully ground his hypothesis. David Dawson has done the hard work. The result is stunning. Never has a philological work been so essential for anthropological research. Reading this book has sent chills down my spine in the same way as when I discovered Girard's masterpieces some thirty years ago.
--Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Professor of Social Philosophy, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
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--Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Professor of Social Philosophy, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term ?scapegoat” has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While WilliamTyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough to its pivotal roles in projects as seemingly at odds as Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Western metaphysics and René Girard’s theory of cultural origins. A copiously researched and groundbreaking investigation of the expression in such wide use today, Flesh Becomes Word follows the scapegoat from its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological reflection on the meaning of Jesus’ death, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era, where the word takes recognizable shape in the context of the New English Quaker persecution and proto-feminist diatribe at the close of the seventeenth century. The historical circumstances of its lexical formation prove rich in implications for current theories of the scapegoat and the making of the modern world alike.
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- VerlagMichigan State University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2013
- ISBN 10 1611860636
- ISBN 13 9781611860634
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Flesh Becomes Word: A Lexicography of the Scapegoat or, the History of an Idea (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture)
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ISBN 13: 9781611860634
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term scapegoat has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While William Tyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by Lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough to its pivotal roles in projects as seemingly at odds as Jacques Derridas deconstruction of Western metaphysics and Rene Girards theory of cultural origins. A copiously researched and groundbreaking investigation of the expression in such wide use today, Flesh Becomes Word follows the scapegoat from its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological reflection on the meaning of Jesus death, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era, where the word takes recognisable shape in the context of the New English Quaker persecution and proto-feminist diatribe at the close of the seventeenth century. The historical circumstances of its lexical formation prove rich in implications for current theories of the scapegoat and the making of the modern world alike. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR013617561
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