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So I want to read Frazer's The Golden Bough before I dive into Girard but I don't know which edition to read.
My university has the complete unabridged 15 volume edition but it is extremely long and would probably take at least several months to read.
On the other hand, the Oxford abridged edition on Amazon is only about 1000 pages long so I suspect there is a lot of important material not included in it.
If you have read either or both of the editions, what was your experience like and which one do you recommend?
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Huh, I just bought this on a whim yesterday because I remember it being one of my grandad's favourite books.
>get two pages in
>already no idea what the fuck is going on
He says the abridged version is enough to be getting on with if you don't want sources with notes on everything as you go along, if that's any help.
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Unless you are a researcher, the abridged version will suffice. If you still want more after you finish, you can always go to the index of the complete version and look for the parts that interst you more or for the ones that you didn't read and think you will find interesting.
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>>8960629
just read totem and taboo by Freud instead
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>>8960629
Here's a compelling commentary on the work by our friend Ludwig
https://docs.google.com/document/d/194Uc_W4nTMjJ6yzfV7WFVuY74zPhcivsam3EqijatXA/edit
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