Violence and Difference

Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction
Author: Andrew J. McKenna
Paper – $23
978-0-252-06202-5
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1992
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About the Book

McKenna explicates key elements of the anthropology of Rene Girard and the literarytheory of Jacques Derrida in terms of each other--to create an interpretive strategy that hehopes will "salvage deconstruction from the flashy sterility it favors."

Book Details

Pages: 256 pages
AnthropologyCritical TheoryLiterature, AmericanLiterature, EuropeanPhilosophyReligion

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