Antidote

June 30, 2009 in objecting
Tags: apocalypse, assmann, girard, monotheism, polytheism, religion, violence

Jan Assmann’s quick point on René Girard:
“We owe to René Girard the idea that religion is the contrary of violence, with his very remarked theses on the end of violence, expressed in an amazingly resounding way in Violence and the Sacred, and then in a series of other studies. It is therefore disturbing to notice [...]