Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Girard

“...the victim...is a substitute for all the members of the community, offered up by the members themselves. The sacrifice serves to protect the entire community from its own violence; it prompts the entire community to choose victims outside itself” (ibid., p. 8)."



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