Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

Bataille, Agamben and Girard are thinkers of the moment in as much as each aims to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of violence, sovereignty and the sacred. The book shows that a study of the latter categories inevitably reveals a connection between violence ant the image, a connection that also shows what it means to be a victim. The Conclusion argues that no study of violence and the image can avoid engaging with the issue of what justice and injustice mean in relation to persecution and the victim as scapegoat. The originality of the book also rests on the fact that the thought of Bataille, Agamben and Girard on violence and the image have been brought into conjunction for the first time.