Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

by John Lechte

What is violence - what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille, Agamben and Girard - thinkers of the moment in as much as they each aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred. To study power and the sacred, the book shows, is to reveal the connection between violence and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399519778
• ISBN13: 9781399519779
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"