Spacegoat, sacrificial exchange, violence and corporality

Authors

  • Hilderman Cardona Rodas Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas; Universidad de Medellín (Colombia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP20209214668

Keywords:

scapegoat, sacrifice, violence, the body

Abstract

This article develops a reflection on the relationship among between cult, celebration, and sacrificial substitution in the foundation of human time-space. For this purpose, the author resorts to D. H. Lawrence´s novel The Plumed Serpent, where a bullfight is depicted. For reading this fragment of the novel, the argument articulating the text has as an finds expository support in René Girad´s concept of the scapegoat, the concept of fetishism developed by Auguste Comte, and Michel Serres´ analysis on the of sacrificial exchange which supports the whole totality of human social practice.

Author Biography

Hilderman Cardona Rodas, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas; Universidad de Medellín (Colombia)

Doctor en antropología de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona-España. Magister en historia y historiador de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín. Profesor de tiempo completo e investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Medellín, donde es editor-fundador de la revista Ciencias Sociales y Educación. Autor de los libros: Experiencias desnudas del orden. Cuerpos deformes y monstruosos (2012); Al otro lado del cuerpo. Estudios biopolíticos en América Latina (2014); Oficio de historiador. Enfoques y prácticas (2014); Narrativas corporales de la violencia y estéticas del dolor (2017) y Paz y corporalidad: devenires estéticos del arte de preguntar (2017).

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Published

2019-10-16

Issue

No. 92 (2020)

Section

Artigos

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