Philosophy's Violent Sacred: Heidegger and Nietzsche through Mimetic Theory - Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

In this volume Duane Armitage attempts a critique of continental philosophy and postmodernism through the lens of Rene Girard's mimetic theory. This critique is directed primarily at the philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger, both among the foremost representatives of continental and postmodern thought.