The Scapegoat
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780660184968 (0660184966)
Publish date: September 28th 2001
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Edition language: English
Only two stars for style and the first half of the book, *but* 4-5 for Girard's interpretation of the gospels and his conclusion. He is really on to something; his (or rather, the New Testament's) scapegoat theory is a sophisticated analysis of individual-versus-group relations, religion, and sacral...