Discourses of Violence (Girard)

Robert Chandler kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Wed Oct 19 06:28:14 UTC 2005


Rima,

Do you have time to tell us a little about "Girardian theories of ritualized
violence in society"?  It would be interesting.

R.

> Rimgaila Salys <Salys at buffmail.Colorado.EDU>:
> 
>> It seems to me that Babel's depiction of the cossacks in Red Cavalry is
>> perfectly consistent with Girardian theories of ritualized violence in
>> society.  I've noticed that many people who have lived through/escaped
>> Stalinism or even its gentler successors are very resistant to myth criticism
>> as a way of approaching the Soviet era, and here one has to agree to
>> disagree.
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