The Question Of Sacrifice

Author : Dennis King Keenan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253110564

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The Question of Sacrifice by Dennis King Keenan Pdf

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, 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 for living an ethical life? Along the way to an answer, Keenan considers the views of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot, Irigaray, Derrida, Kristeva, Nancy, and Zizek. This thoughtful and provocative work affords a sophisticated philosophical treatment of the question of sacrifice.

Author : Dennis King Keenan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0253217695

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The Question of Sacrifice by Dennis King Keenan Pdf

A philosophical exploration of the ethics and politics of sacrifice.

Author : Reginald M. Lynch O.P.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192874788

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Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period by Reginald M. Lynch O.P. Pdf

A study of the reception history of Thomas Aquinas's account of eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Author : Moshe Halbertal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400842353

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On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Pdf

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. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746470897

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Question of Sacrifice, The. Studies in Continental Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas M. Lennon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004404496

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France by Thomas M. Lennon Pdf

The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes’s views on freewill were cited by both sides.

Author : Alberdina Houtman,Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua J. Schwartz,Joseph Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004284234

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The Actuality of Sacrifice by Alberdina Houtman,Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua J. Schwartz,Joseph Turner Pdf

Sacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community events. The essays in this volume discuss the various positions regarding the value of sacrifice in a wide variety of disciplines such as history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, art and gender and post-colonial studies. In this context they examine a wide array of questions pertaining to the 'actuality of sacrifice' in various social, historical and intellectual contexts ranging from the pre-historical to the post-Holocaust, and present new understandings of some of the most sensitive topics of our time.

Author : Michon M. Matthiesen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813220031

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Sacrifice As Gift by Michon M. Matthiesen Pdf

Sacrifice as Gift is a timely presentation of a forgotten vision of eucharistic sacrifice, one that reconfigures the current philosophical and theological divide between sacrifice and gift.

Author : Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Sacrifice
ISBN : 9783643909176

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Sacrifice by Robert Petkovsek,Bojan Zalec Pdf

Various fundamental and vital areas and aspects of human life are in some way crucially interwoven with the ideas, ideals, and practices of sacrifice. As an attention-grabbing example of how importantly sacrifice may influence society, let us mention (suicide) terrorist attacks that by spreading sorrow, panics, and fear have changed the face of today's world. But the importance of sacrifice reaches broader and deeper. The authors of this book show that it is connected with the origins of human culture and its transformations. This interdisciplinary book brings the results of the research in the areas of humanities and social science. Various aspects of sacrifice are considered and connected. The book is an important contribution to the formation of a culture of sacrifice and offering, appropriate for the modern world. Professor Robert Petkovsek is the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana. Research Professor Bojan Zalec is the Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

Author : Johan Van der Walt
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134233823

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Law and Sacrifice by Johan Van der Walt Pdf

In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. Drawing upon the work of contemporary thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, George Bataille, Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, the author elicits the radical democratic potential of this 'horizontal' notion of rights. Johan van der Walt argues that apartheid must be understood as more than a racist abuse of power, and here he articulates its 'sacrificial logic'. It is in going beyond this logic, he maintains, that the truly democratic potential of the South African Constitution can be understood: in a radical formal and substantive equality that offers the legal basis for rethinking a post-apartheid future. Combining a rigorous theoretical understanding with a subtle political engagement, Law and Sacrifice is a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism. It will be of interest to political and legal theorists as well as to those who are concerned with South African law and politics.

Author : Daniel C. Ullucci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199791729

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The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice by Daniel C. Ullucci Pdf

Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically in the fourth and fifth centuries with the rise of Christianity. Daniel Ullucci offers a new explanation of this remarkable transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice challenges the predominant scholarly model, which posits a connection between so-called critiques of sacrifice in non-Christian Greek, Latin, and Hebrew texts and the Christian rejection of animal sacrifice. According to this model, pre-Christian authors attacked the propriety of animal sacrifice as a religious practice, and Christians responded by replacing animal sacrifice with a pure, ''spiritual'' 'worship. This historical construction influences prevailing views of animal sacrifice even today, casting it as barbaric, backward, and primitive despite the fact that it is still practiced in such contemporary religions as Islam and Santeria. Rather than interpret the entire history of animal sacrifice through the lens of the Christian master narrative, Ullucci shows that the ancient texts must be seen not simply as critiques but as part of an ongoing competition between elite cultural producers to define the meaning and purpose of sacrifice. He reveals that Christian authors were not merely purveyors of pure spiritual religion, but a cultural elite vying for legitimacy and influence in societies that long predated them. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice is a crucial reinterpretation of the history of one of humanity's oldest and most fascinating rituals.

Author : Maria-Zoe Petropoulou
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191527357

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Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 by Maria-Zoe Petropoulou Pdf

A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity during the period of their interaction between about 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple (up to AD 70), Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice. Contrary to other studies in this area, she demonstrates that the process by which Christianity finally separated its own cultic code from the strong tradition of animal sacrifice was a slow and difficult one. Petropoulou places special emphasis on the fact that Christians gave completely new meanings to the term `sacrifice'. She also explores the question why, if animal sacrifice was of prime importance in the eastern Mediterranean at this time, Christians should ultimately have rejected it.

Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107167742

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics by Thomas Williams Pdf

Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.

Author : K. M. Fierke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139620277

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Political Self-Sacrifice by K. M. Fierke Pdf

Over the last decade the increasing phenomenon of suicide terrorism has raised questions about how it might be rational for individuals to engage in such acts. This book examines a range of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent martyrdom, all of which have taken place in resistance to foreign interference. Karin Fierke sets out to study the strategic and emotional dynamics that arise from the image of the suffering body, including political contestation surrounding the identification of the victim as a terrorist or martyr, the meaning of the death as suicide or martyrdom and the extent to which this contributes to the reconstruction of community identity. Political Self-Sacrifice offers a counterpoint to rationalist accounts of international terrorism in terrorist and security studies, and is a novel contribution to the growing literature on the role of emotion and trauma in international politics.

Author : David L. Weddle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814789315

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Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by David L. Weddle Pdf

Common features of sacrifice -- Theories of sacrifice -- Sacrifice in Jewish tradition -- Sacrifice in Christian tradition -- Sacrifice in Islamic tradition