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Autore |
Keenan Dennis King |
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Titolo |
The Question of Sacrifice [[electronic resource]] |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07239-0 |
0-253-11056-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Studies in Continental thought The question of sacrifice |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophical theology |
Sacrifice |
Sacrifice - Christianity |
Philosophy, European |
Ethics |
Philosophy |
Philosophy & Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; acknowledgments; list of abbreviations; The Sacrifice of Sacrifice: Waiting without Hope; 1. A Genealogy of Theories of Sacrifice: A History of Economics, Sexism,and Christo-centric Evolutionism; 2. Kristeva: Mimesis and Sacrifice; 3. Bataille: The Hegelian Dialectic, Death, and Sacrifice; 4. Nietzsche: The Eternal Return of Sacrifice; 5. Levinas: On Resorting to the Ethical Language of Sacrifice; 6. Irigaray: The Sacrifice of the Sacrifice of Woman; 7. Lacan/Z iz ek: The Repetition of the Sacrifice of the Sacrifice as anEthical Act; 8. Derrida: The Double Bind of Sacrifice |
9. Hegel at the Chiasm of Derrida and Lacan/Z iz ek10. The Sacrifice of the Eucharist; bibliography; index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this concentrated and detailed look at questions surrounding the act of sacrifice, Dennis King Keenan discusses both the role and the meaning of sacrifice in our lives. Building on recent philosophical discussions on the gift and transcendence, |
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Keenan covers new ground with this exploration of the religious, psychological, and ethical issues that sacrifice entails. According to Keenan, sacrifice is paradoxically called to sacrifice itself. But what does this necessary, yet impossible condition mean |
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