Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction
Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction
by Andrew J. McKenna
University of Illinois Press, 1992 Paper: 978-0-252-06202-5 | Cloth: 978-0-252-01837-4 Library of Congress Classification B2430.G494M34 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 194
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
McKenna explicates key elements of the anthropology of Rene Girard and the literary
theory of Jacques Derrida in terms of each other--to create an interpretive strategy that he
hopes will "salvage deconstruction from the flashy sterility it favors."