The Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection on Violence in Human Communities

by Wendy Hamblet

In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being; it pervades our generations and is imbedded in the ethos of our modern institutions. Hamblet's discussion of human history re-frames our understanding of how violence works in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739106155
• ISBN13: 9780739106150
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"