Blasphemy Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Cabantous, Alain |
| Translator:
| Rauth, Eric |
| Series title: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-11876-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $139.00 |
Book Description:
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The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.
The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.