Blasphemy: impious speech in the west from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
Auteur :
Cabantous, Alain
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231118767
Date de publication :
28 nov. 2001
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.