On sacrifice
The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious doma…
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- Full title :On sacrifice / Moshe Halbertal.
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The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 134 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400842353, 1400842352
- oclc:ocn775872992
- LC Classification:BL570
- Dewey Decimal:203.4
Table of Contents
Offering, rejection, and ritual -- Sacrifice, exchange, and love -- Sacrifice and its substitutes -- Self-transcendence and violence -- War and sacrificial logic -- Sacrifice and the political bond -- The tate and the sacrificial stage.
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