InRené Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity. Chapter 4 focuses on modern institutions, chiefly the nation state and the market, that function to restrain the outbreak of violence.

InRené Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity. Chapter 4 focuses on modern institutions, chiefly the nation state and the market, that function to restrain the outbreak of violence.