The Reasonable Citizen/The Unreasonable Scapegoat
I argue here that the modern liberal state has not escaped the organized violence of the scapegoat mechanism as described by Rene Girard and that liberal theory, at least in its Rawlsian form, obscures this mechanism rather than repudiating it. The clearest example of this is Rawls’s attempt to dist...
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2015
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Journal of religion and violence
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-89 |
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