Sacrificial Cults as ‘the Mysterious Centre of every Religion’: A Girardian Assessment of Aby Warburg’s Theory of Religion

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2013

Author

Palaver, Wolfgang

Editor

Meszaros, Julia Zachhuber, Johannes

Book

Sacrifice and Modern Thought

Pages

83-99

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place Published

Oxford, UK

Language

English

Keywords

violence
Girard, René
pacifism

Annotation

See pages 90 to 92 for a comparison of Girard's and Weil's understandings of violence and a brief note on p. 99 regarding Weil as a pacifist.