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Radical sacrifice /
A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual n...
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London
Yale University Press
2018
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Radical sacrifice
- Tragedy and crucifixion
- Martyrdom and mortality
- Exchange and excess
- Kings and beggars
- Endnotes
- Index.